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    "id": 1031314,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Lilian Gogo",
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        "legal_name": "Lilian Achieng Gogo",
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    "content": "I do not know whether that gives any premium to the women who come from this region. However, what I am trying to interrogate is the real need for this to be done at this particular time. We cannot also wholesomely castigate one cultural practice because from where I come, in the greater Luo-Nyanza, there used to be the removal of six teeth. This would probably be replaced with FGM in another community. The practice of removal of six teeth has since been abandoned because of the gravity of what it does to the person who experiences it. You also do not look good when some of your teeth are removed. So, when you are talking about this matter, I become curious. Why would somebody want to remove part of the sexual organ of a woman? Intact muscles can stretch when one is delivering a baby, but a scar can never stretch. When cutting has been done, a scar is formed. Therefore, a Caesarean section has to be done during child birth because the mother cannot deliver in the normal way that she is supposed to deliver where there is normal stretching that is brought about by the harmonious systems that the body brings about to allow the baby to come out normally. When you create a scar and it heals, it can never stretch the way normal muscles stretch. From Hon. (Ms.) Gedi’s research, this brings about many cases. I do not have this documented. It brings in issues of instability in families. Why instability in families? One would want to live with a woman who has been cut and then live with another woman who has not been cut and we still want them to give him the same effect. This brings family instability. Article 53 of the Constitution talks about the rights of children. It says that children have a right to be protected from abuse. We must put our lives and systems in this time and age to be in line with our Constitution. We are not doing anybody any favour when we debate this particular matter in this House at this particular time. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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