MULING isinumite ni Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman ang panukalang batas para gawing legal ang divorce.
Sa kanyang House Bill No. 78, sinabi ni Lagman na hindi maaaring iabandona ng estado “ang mag-asawa at kanilang mga anaka sa isang tahanan na nasusunog na”.
Ayon pa kay Lagman, ang panukala ay gaya lang din ng Reproductive Health Act na isang isyu ng karapatan ng mga kababaihan.
“Not being able to get out of a loveless, unhappy, even abusive marriage is a human rights concern for women,” pahayag ni Lagman sa explanatory note ng kanyang panukala.
“When there is physical violence in a relationship, women are almost always at the receiving end of a fist or an open palm and it is the obligation of the State to ensure this does not intensify to the use of a knife or firearm,” dagdag pa nito.
Sa pamamagitan anya ng Absolute Divorce Act, ang isang “beleaguered and tormented wives can soon be liberated from irretrievably dysfunctional marriages or inordinately abusive marital relations.”
Sa ilalim ng pankala, maaaring maging grounds ng diborsyo ang physical abuse; moral pressure to change religious or political affiliations; attempt to induce a child to engage in prostitution or connivance in such; final judgment of over six years of imprisonment; drug addiction, habitual alcoholism or chronic gambling; homosexuality; bigamy; marital infidelity or perversion; attempt on the life of petitioner and unjustified abandonment.Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman has filed anew a bill that would legalize divorce, saying the state “cannot abandon couples and their children in a house on fire.”
