PANAMA CITY — Activists in Panama have urged the country’s president to remove two provisions of a bill that would prevent same-sex couples from adopting children.
The Panamanian National Assembly on March 3 approved Bill 120, which would reform the country’s adoption system. Article 22 of the bill states a man and a woman “united in marriage or a common law marriage for a minimum of two years” can adopt a child.
La Prensa, a Panamanian newspaper, notes Article 26 of the bill would allow joint adoptions “when the people are spouses or in a common law marriage and are of different sex.” Fundación Iguales, a Panamanian LGBTQ rights group, and other advocacy groups in an open letter to President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen have urged him to veto
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