Posted on 07/04/2022 6:24:23 PM PDT by marshmallow
Congressman Edcel Lagman argues that absolute divorce is a decent interment of a long-dead marriage
A Philippine lawmaker is taking a second shot at legalizing divorce in Asia's only Catholic-majority country.
Albay lawmaker Edcel Lagman on July 3 re-filed a bill, dubbed the “Absolute Divorce Act,” to liberate “beleaguered and tormented wives” from “irretrievably dysfunctional marriages or inordinately abusive marital relations.”
A previous bill was set aside by the Senate under former President Rodrigo Duterte after being approved by the Committee on Population and Family Relations in the House of Representatives as the coronavirus pandemic hit the country.
The Philippines is the only country, aside from the Vatican, to outlaw absolute divorce even though the Catholic hierarchy grants canonical dissolution of marriage.
The country allows declaration of nullity based on psychological incapacity, a long and expensive legal process that only the court could decide, not the couple themselves.
Lawmakers pushing for absolute divorce say it is time for the Philippines to pass a law because defective marriages were leading to increased women and child abuse in the country.
Lagman, who is a lawyer, told the media on July 4 that divorce was the key to liberating both sexes in a troubled relationship that diminishes the quality of life of the couple and their children.
“The bill re-instituting absolute divorce is a sequel to the Reproductive Health Law which allows the state to promote artificial contraceptives. Like the Reproductive Health Law, the central figure in the divorce bill is the woman who is often times abused in a malfunctioning relationship,” Lagman added.
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May as well make the Filipinos honest about the status of relationships down there.
A significant number of them aren’t living with their spouses but have moved onto their second or third after-marriage relationship.
They just can’t divorce.
We have known dozens of Filipina’s (women) whose husbands have left them and have started 2nd or even 3rd families. The women left behind (usually with the children and no money) are unable to re-marry ... It is extremely difficult for them in their poverty, and they deserve the right to divorce.
Many men down there are completely terrible people. My Filipina friend, that I have visited in the past cares for a disabled nephew that became disabled because of a failed abortion and her brother has at least 5 other children that I know of that he doesn’t care about at all.
I don’t understand that thinking, where you can abandon children to starvation, just because you want a new woman to have sex with.
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