Phillipines: Anti-domestic violence act is not husband-bashing, hate men law

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-07-26 19:51

Article here. Excerpt:

'MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of the country’s Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act, as it threw out a petition labelling it as a “husband-bashing” and “hate men” law.

In a 37-page decision released Friday, the high court, through Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe, dismissed petition filed by a certain Jesus Garcia, who said that the law, Republic Act 9262 otherwise, violated the equal protection and due process clause of the Constitution.

Garcia went to the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeals affirmed the Temporary Protection Order issued by the Bacolod City Regional Trial Court in favor of his wife.
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In his petition, Garcia insisted that he should be appraised of the case filed against him. He also expressed fear of being stripped of family, property, money, children, job, future employment and reputation.

The high court, however said it is merely a “product of an overactive imagination.”

The Supreme Court further said that Garcia failed to show concrete evidence and convincing arguments that would warrant the declaration of the Anti-VAWC law as unconstitutional.

“Courts must assume that the legislature is ever conscious of the borders and edges of its plenary powers, and passed laws with full knowledge of the facts and for the purpose of promoting what is right and advancing the welfare of the majority,” the high court said.'

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Let's say he isn't guilty of anything but being married to the wrong woman. I am assuming he is innocent here, indeed, could be he's all the bad things alleged by his soon-to-be ex-wife (or so I presume). But let's do what is so rarely done and give the accused *gasp* the benefit of the doubt.

Now if he's found guilty of DV and he's innocent, is it just his imagination he'll be all the things he said he'd be: out of a job, loss of reputation, children, etc.? I don't think it's in his imagination at all.

But it seems like here in the US and damn near everywhere else, what men imagine isn't important; what women do, however, is.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2013-07-27 00:05