THE House Committee on Population and Human Relations has approved an absolute divorce bill for the Philippines, sending the measure to the floor for plenary debates. Its main proponent, Rep. Edcel Lagman (Albay, 1st District), said the proposed law would put us at the "threshold of joining the universality of absolute divorce in the community of nations."

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