Justice

<blockquote>A judge has refused to grant a divorce to a pregnant woman trying to leave her husband two years after he was jailed for beating her, ruling instead that she must wait until the child is born.<br />n<br />nShawnna Hughes' husband was convicted of abuse in 2002. She separated from him after the attack and filed for divorce last April. She later became pregnant by another man and is due in March.</blockquote><br />n<br />nShe freely admits the baby is not her husbands but the <a href="http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041231/APA/412311080" target="_new">judge won't grant her a divorce</a> because she is pregnant.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"There's a lot of case law that says it is important in this state that children not be illegitimized," Superior Court Judge Paul Bastine told The Spokesman-Review newspaper on Thursday.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSince when has the legal system been worried about illegitimacy. By the same token if he granted the divorce she would marry the boyfriend and the illegitimacy issue would be taken away. I just don't understand why it's important to keep this women married to a man that abused here when she wants to get away from him. Some stuff I will never understand.<br />n<br />n<b>You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. John Lennon </b>