This we got to see.
Opposition senator Risa
Hontiveros has refiled her pet “Absolute Divorce bill” which will allow absolute
divorce in the Philippines, a measure that has been since time and memorial
faced a strong opposition from the Catholic Church.
Hontiveros in her explanatory
note of the bill, noted that its only the Vatican and the Philippines in the
whole planet where divorce is still illegal.
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| Opposition Senator Rissa Hontiveros (photo credit to owner) |
"Despite this, the
number and proportion of Filipinos who are separate has been increasing over
time — demonstrating that the denial of legal remedies to those seeking to
dissolve their union has largely been an ineffective way of upholding the
policy of the State to keep families together,” Hontiveros said in her
explanatory note.
She says that it has
been well documented that the absence of a divorce law "has had
disproportionate effects on women who are more often the victims of abuse
within marriages.”
Under the proposed
bill, physical violence and "grossly abusive conduct" are considered
grounds for divorce.
Divorce may also be
filed when the spouses are legally separated by judicial decree for at least
two years or when they have been separated “in fact” for at least five years
and reconciliation is highly improbable.
Still recognizes the
sanctity of family life
The Lady senator told
reporters that during the 17th congress her bill slept at the
committee level, and she says that while the State continues to recognize the sanctity
of family life ,“it is also duty bound to promote and protect the well-being of
its citizens.”
“It is a duty that
should extend to circumstances whereby this well-being is being compromised by
the inability to break free from irremediably broken marriages and start anew
in healthier family and living arrangements,” she said.
President Rodrigo Roa
Duterte already said he will not support the bill because his daughter Davao
city mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio “is not happy with it.”
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