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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this policy on eradication of FGM, which is also known as Female Genital Cutting. The difference is this: Mutilation describes what really happens. It is really a horrible act. I will not go into the details of the anatomy. Hon. Millie Odhiambo did that. I give her a B+ (plus) for knowing the anatomy of the female genitalia. If we leave all issues of the Constitution, of the laws and policies out, it is the effect it has on the people who are involved. Leave alone pleasure and sensation, which obviously we have enjoyed talking about here, but there are serious health problems. When we talk about the form that Millie described as infibulation, actually the opening is closed after cutting all the clitoris and vulva and then close it, it heals back. So, basically, they leave a hole that can only pass urine. If it is done early, the ladies cannot even menstruate and that alone causes problems. When it is done, many children die from bleeding. Severe infection can follow. When it is blocked, a girl can actually have severe infection right up to the uterus and the girls can be sterile because of the infection. When it comes to the time of delivery, if it is of a severe form and the opening was literally closed with just a small hole left, it is impossible for a baby to pass. What happens? They have to go through caesarean section and if they are in a place where that cannot take place, the child and mother can die or it can be so severe that they actually may damage the bladder and we have free flowing urine – vesicovaginal fistula - where women leak of urine throughout their lives."
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