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Nothing says pro-life like forcing someone, especially someone who is pregnant, to stay in a violent, potentially deadly situation.
Explain how this forces a woman to stay in the situation. These laws only prevent finalizing a divorce. Because the state may want questions answered at the time of birth. Circumstances may change, etc.
https://www.custodyxchange.com/topics/divorce/divorce-while-pregnant.php
In any case, women in these states are perfectly free to begin divorce proceedings, which can easily take many months. Given that, I doubt this applies to many situations. My divorce took so long we could have easily gotten pregnant again and had the child before it was over.
I have yet to hear an argument as to how this blocks a woman's freedom or otherwise hurts her. In fact, given some of the questions in the above link, getting a divorce before birth could cause a women extra grief.
What good does this law do? Sounds like in a best case scenario it makes divorces take longer and cost more money on legal fees.