{"id":58576,"date":"2015-08-10T21:52:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58576"},"modified":"2025-01-28T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:38:41","slug":"poe-files-bill-for-abandoned-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/10\/poe-files-bill-for-abandoned-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Poe files bill for abandoned children"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57922\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11265587_961769033854311_4642373115081898469_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57922\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11265587_961769033854311_4642373115081898469_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Grace Poe (Photo from Poe's official Facebook page)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11265587_961769033854311_4642373115081898469_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11265587_961769033854311_4642373115081898469_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Grace Poe (Photo from Poe&#8217;s official Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Following issues thrown against her citizenship, Senator Grace Poe filed a bill to strengthen registering birth of children in need of special protection including foundlings.<\/p>\n<p>Poe said in a statement on Sunday that the bill aims to protect the aspirations of children who were abandoned by their biological parents.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis black online <a href=\"http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/cialis-black.html\">http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/cialis-black.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am doing this no longer for myself but for the thousands of children who were abandoned, who might grow up never knowing their biological parents, and whose dreams and aspirations may be limited because of their status,\u201d Poe said.<\/p>\n<p>Poe noted\u00a0that abandoned children should not be considered &#8220;second class citizens&#8221; and their rights should be protected.<\/p>\n<p>Poe was left in a church in Iloilo City as\u00a0a baby and was adopted by the late Fernando Poe Jr. and Susan Roces.<\/p>\n<p>Her citizenship has recently become controversial because of the unknown circumstances of her birth.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy flomax online <a href=\"http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/flomax.html\">http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/flomax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But Poe earlier said that she has necessary documents to prove that she was a natural-born Filipino and that she is qualified to run for higher office.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy finasteride online <a href=\"http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/finasteride.html\">http:\/\/forest-therapy.net\/images\/photoalbum\/gif\/finasteride.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Following issues thrown against her citizenship, Senator Grace Poe filed a bill to strengthen registering birth of children &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":57922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-uncategorized","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286477,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58576\/revisions\/286477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}