“December 2020 was a turbulent month for Danielle Drake, 32, of Lake of the Ozarks. On December 1, her husband said he was going out with a friend, but he lied. He was actually having an affair. She filed for a divorce less than a week later, on December 7.
Then, not long before Christmas, Drake found out she was pregnant.
Drake knew immediately she had to file a second, amended petition for divorce. She also knew the impact her pregnancy would have on the divorce proceedings. Drake, who earned a law degree from University of Missouri Kansas City has been practicing family law for two years, was well aware that in Missouri, women who are pregnant can’t get a divorce.
Missouri law states that a petition for divorce must provide eight pieces of information, things like the residence of each party, the date of separation, and, notably, “whether the wife is pregnant.” If the answer is yes, Drake says, "What that practically does is put your case on hold.”
“[T]he whole basis for Missouri putting the pause on a divorce proceeding until a child is born is because Missouri divorce law “does not see fetuses as humans.You can’t have a court order that dictates visitation and child support for a child that doesn’t exist,” she says. “I have no mechanism as a lawyer to get that support going. There’s nothing there because that’s not a real person.”
Meanwhile, the state of Missouri has recently outlawed abortion in nearly all instances, barring medical emergencies.
On this day, 22 July 1895, August Agbola O'Browne, the only Black person believed to have participated in the anti-Nazi Warsaw uprising of 1944 was born in Lagos, Nigeria. A professional musician and polyglot, speaking six languages, he moved to Poland in 1922, lived in Warsaw and played drums in clubs in the city. He initially took part in the defence of Warsaw during the 1939 German invasion, and later took part in the 1944 insurrection (not to be confused with the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943) under the codename “Ali” in the Iwo battalion. In 1958, O'Browne migrated to Britain where he died in the late 1970s.
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Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Dog Soldiers Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD (with
Blu-ray). Originally due out last month, it will now be released on August 23. Laz Marquez designed the new cover art.
The 2002 British werewolf film is written and directed by Neil Marshall (The Descent, Hellboy). Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, and Liam Cunningham star.
Dog
Soldiers has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera
negative, approved by Marshall and cinematographer Sam McCurdy. Special
features are listed below.
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