Former Las Piñas Representative Cynthia Villar on Thursday vowed to push for a measure against “unjust abandonment” by a husband should she win a Senate seat in the May 2013 elections.
Lawmakers appear to be on a collision course over efforts to introduce a divorce law in the country, with two completely opposite bills pending in the House of Representatives.
Catholic Church leaders warned that the proposal to introduce divorce in the Philippines would further divide the country after the bitter debate over the contentious reproductive health (RH) bill and implant a “culture of death” in the nation.
Senator Pia Cayetano, head of the Senate committee on youth, women and family relations, is ready to engage in another controversial issue, the proposed divorce bill, but only after Congress is done with the Reproductive Health measure.
Apart from the Vatican, the Philippines is the only country in the world without a divorce law after Malta legalized divorce in 2011.
While Roman Catholic bishops and prolife groups were still recovering from their crushing defeat on the reproductive health (RH) bill, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte dropped yet another bombshell—he wants a divorce law in predominantly Catholic Philippines.
Based on the schedule announced Wednesday, the wake of Negros Occidental Representative Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo will take place in three areas following his arrival from Ninoy Aquino International Airport—the house of Aleli Arroyo, the ancestral house of the Arroyos and Bacolod City, then back to Aleli’s house before interment on Saturday.
