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Women support divorce bill
By Nidz Godino
“We urge our senators to seriously consider and pass bill finally legalizing divorce,” Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa-Women said in statement ,women workers expressed support for immediate passage of absolute divorce bill, saying it would protect women and families from abuse.
“Instead of collapse of morality that conservatives are obsessed about, legalization of this practice is needed respite for many women and families that are forced to suffer in silence,” group noted.
Sentro called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.to certify House Bill 9349 as urgent.
House of Representatives on May 22 approved on third and final reading absolute divorce bill, voting 131-109 with 20 abstentions.
Bill’s transmittal to Senate for concurrence is on hold pending questions on how votes were counted, as House leadership had erroneously reported 126 affirmative votes, later correcting it to 131.
Its passage on third reading is positive development that must be followed by Senate, Sentro said.
Philippines, secular state, is last country in the world outside Vatican that has not legalized divorce.
Fate of divorce bill remains uncertain in Senate, with five senators including Senate President so far against it, according to Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada.
Estrada surveyed 24 senators on their stance on divorce bill.
Among those who replied, Senate President Francis Escudero, majority leader Francis Tolentino, Joel Villanueva, Ronald Dela Rosa and Estrada himself are against divorce.
Sen. Risa Hontiveros, main proponent of Senate version of divorce bill Robin Padilla, Grace Poe, Imee Marcos, Pia Cayetano and Raffy Tulfo support measure.
Senate version of bill was approved by Hontiveros’ committee on women and family relations last year but it has yet to be forwarded to plenary for interpellation.
Escudero explained he opposed House version of divorce as it lacked provision allowing Public Attorney’s Office to take on divorce cases for indigents.
Estrada’s survey did not include positions of former Senate president Juan Miguel Zubiri, minority leader Koko Pimentel, Sonny Angara, JV Ejercito, Loren Legarda, Nancy Binay, Alan Peter Cayetano, Sherwin Gatchalian, Bong Go, Lito Lapid, Ramon Revilla Jr. and Cynthia and Mark Villar.
Zubiri, has been vocal about his position against divorce, is “conservative senator. I’m pro-family and pro-life.”
Pimentel cannot vote for the measure after seeing contents of House bill on divorce.
Binay on May 25 has always been against divorce ever since she ran for Senate in 2013.
Angara, Revilla and Ejercito are still thinking about their positions.
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