Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. filed House Bill 611 seeking ghosting as an emotional offense.
HOUSE BILL 611 – Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. (Negros Oriental) filed House Bill 611 or The Anti-Ghosting Bill but offers no resolution.
“Ghosting” is a colloquial term used to describe the act of severing ties with someone without any warning. This normally happens in the context of a romantic relationship. This was even widely used when Bea Alonzo used this to describe what Gerald Anderson did to her.
And just recently, declaring this as a form of emotional abuse is the House Bill No. 611 filed by Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. stressing “ghosting” as abuse that “develops feelings of rejection and neglect”.
The house bill or “An Act Declaring Ghosting as an Emotional Offense,” is seeking “ghosting for no apparent justifiable reason but solely to cause emotional distress to the victim” as an offense.
In the document, ghosting was defined as “a form of emotional abuse and happens once a person is engaged in a dating relationship with the opposite sex which affects the mental state of the victim”. It is accordingly mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausting to the victim or the ghosted person.
However, Teves’ bill showed no penalty for this offense yet which makes ghosters can still get away due to this lack.
But some netizens did not like it. They expressed that the lawmaker could have put his attention to more pressing matters such as divorce in the country or the SOGIE Bill.
Teves is the same lawmaker who filed a bill to seek the renaming of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) into the Ferdinand E. Marcos International Airport.
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