"Divorce is never easy, but when a couple has made the decision to end their marriage, there is no reason why the state should prevent them from ending their legal relationship and moving on with their lives, " said Erik Olvera, a spokesman for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

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They say abortion, euthanasia, divorce and suicide are never justifiable.

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Diana never looked better than in the days after her divorce.

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Highlights include the crushed velvet wedding dress Hepburn wore when she married Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928 (she got a Mexican divorce from him six years later and never remarried).

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One board member, he discovered, was going through an acrimonious divorce--a fact the director had never mentioned.

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When the divorce was made official last month, Ritchie told the Daily Mirror the split was "never, ever about money".

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Mr Straw has never concealed his strong belief in marriage or his personal reasons for this: his separated parents, his own divorce, the trauma of finding his teenage son involved in drugs.

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