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The bill providing for absolute divorce and dissolution of marriage is an apt sequel to the Reproductive Health and Responsible Parenthood Law.

Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, who chaired the technical working group which consolidated four (4) related bills on divorce, was also the principal author and sponsor of the RH bill.

The sister measures are pro-woman legislations since the RH law guarantees a woman’s right to freely determine the number and spacing of her children and mitigates maternal death, while a divorce law liberates a wife from an abusive relationship and helps her regain dignity and self-respect.

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Some individuals easily crumble under the weight of official title and jettison without qualms their principles for partisan subservience and convenience.

Before his anointment as the leading apologist of President Rodrigo Duterte as presidential spokesman, then Rep. Harry Roque was critical of Duterte’s deadly war on drugs.

Roque even warned the President that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may enforce its jurisdiction over him for alleged crimes against humanity.

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President Rodrigo Duterte has joined national leaders and military commanders in the worldwide roster of infamous individuals ensnared under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The ICC is an international tribunal that investigates and tries persons charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community, which include crimes against humanity, genocide, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

The ICC is part of the global fight to end impunity, and through international criminal justice, it aims to hold accountable those responsible for their crimes and to help prevent these widespread, systematic crimes from happening again.

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Neither obstinate denial nor bare braggadocio can enable the Duterte administration to blunt the preliminary examination to be conducted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The facts and figures do not lie on the killings committed by the Davao Death Squad allegedly at the behest of then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and the recent spate of summary executions related to President Duterte’s deadly war against drugs, all of which amount to crimes against humanity.

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If the petitioners from the Magnificent 7 would file a motion for reconsideration of the Supreme Court’s 10-5 decision upholding the yearlong martial law extension in Mindanao, the principal purpose is to document the flawed, erroneous and biased rationalizations of the majority of the justices.

This would place on judicial record and memorialize in Philippine history how the High Court’s majority crafted strained and strange justifications in kowtowing to the political departments’ importuning which derogated the Constitution and the people’s civil liberties.