Last month I posted on a Washington legislative campaign to overturn a state statute used to deny the divorce petitions of pregnant women.

The movement was sparked after Spokane Judge Paul Bastine refused to grant Shawnna Hughes a divorce from her abusive husband, because "the paternity hadn't been established." Bastine held that "it was the policy of the state that marriages can't be dissolved when one of the parties is pregnant."

Well, yesterday the ACLU & Northwest Women's Law Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case to remind the Court that: "Rights should never be based on a person’s reproductive choices. A woman’s ability to divorce simply should not depend on whether she is pregnant." Pretty scary that something so basic needs clarifying, huh?

Click here, for more info on this frightening appeal.