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The horrors of the Plaza Miranda bombing on August 21, 1971 and Ninoy Aquino’s assassination on August 21, 1983 still haunt Filipinos as we commemorate the twin tragedies.
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Memorandum No. 2022-0663 dated August 9, 2022 of the Komsiyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF) banning five (5) books in Filipino as “subversive” is a liquidation of the freedom of expression which is enshrined and protected by the Bill of Rights, according to Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, the lone authentic opposition in the House of Representatives.
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Not known to many, President Fidel V. Ramos was a staunch advocate of reproductive health.
He attended many meetings of supporters of the reproductive health bill, together with his sister, the late Senator Leticia R. Shahani, in designing strategies to facilitate the passage of the then controversial measure.
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The avowal of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. to fully respect human rights will be put to the test with the refiling by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman of the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act as House Bill No. 77.
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For the nth time, a bill legalizing divorce in the country has been refiled as House Bill No. 78 in the 19th Congress.
Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, the principal author of previous bills legislating absolute divorce, is finally hopeful that “beleaguered and tormented wives can soon be liberated from irretrievably dysfunctional marriages or inordinately abusive marital relations.”
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