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Reproductive Health

Let me start this Counter-SONA by thanking the President for his continued support for the Reproductive Health Law, particularly with his issuance of Executive Order No. 12 on January 9, 2017 which calls for the full implementation of the RH Law, particularly attaining an sustaining "zero unmet need for modern family planning."

To give emphasis to his endorsement of the RH Law, the President went to the extent of castigating the Supreme Court for issuing a TRO enjoining the use and procurement of Implanon and Implanon NXT, which are the hormonal contraceptives of choice by countless women.

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Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez need not file a separate bill on divorce because he is welcome to co-author the first divorce bill (House Bill No. 116) which I filed on 01 July 2016 which is pending with the Committee on Population and Family Relations.

There is also a similar bill (House Bill No. 2380) which was filed by partylist Gabriela Representatives Emmi de Jesus and Arlene Brosas which has been referred to the Committee on Revision of Laws.

The Speaker is urged to expedite the approval of the said bills, as consolidated, by the Committee on Population and Family Relations.

The shift to a federal system needs a thorough and comprehensive constitutional amendment, preferably by a Constitutional Convention.

Only the mode of amendment is a proper subject of a legislative agenda.

 

EDCEL C. LAGMAN

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Rep. Edcel C. Lagman in a 54-page motion for reconsideration filed with the Supreme Court today at 8:04 AM, July 21, 2017, charged the Supreme Court with abdicating its special jurisdiction to fully review the factual sufficiency of Proclamation No. 216 which President Rodrigo Duterte issued imposing martial law in the whole of Mindanao for 60 days effective May 23, 2017.

Among others, Lagman together with Representatives Tomas Villarin, Gary Alejano, Emmanuel Billones and Teddy Baguilat, Jr. challenged the factual sufficiency of Proclamation No. 216 under Section 18 of Article VII of the Constitution which provides:

“The Supreme Court may review, in an appropriate proceeding filed by any citizen, the sufficiency of the factual basis of the proclamation of martial law or the suspension of the privilege of the writ or the extension thereof, and must promulgate its decision thereon within thirty days from its filing.”