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    "id": 1071313,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": " Thank you for the opportunity, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to second the Bill. This is a bipartisan approach. That is why the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health asked me to second this Bill. It is not a women or men affair. The Bill seeks to regulate rights and obligations relating to assisted reproductive technology. It aims to regulate the use of assisted reproductive technologies to aid individuals or couples that have challenges conceiving due to factors associated with infertility. Furthermore, the Bill aims to regulate the qualifications of health practitioners who administer assisted reproductive technology in order to protect recipients of the latter services. Pursuant to provisions of Article 118 of the Constitution and Standing Order 127(3), the Committee through local daily newspapers, on Monday, 7th October 2019, published an advertisement inviting the public to submit memoranda. Further, through letters dated 5th March 2020, the Committee invited individuals and institutions to make presentations on this Bill. Those who presented their memoranda include the Ministry of Health, the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Kenya), Family Health Options Kenya (FHOK) and the Kenya Medical Association. Others were the Centre for Citizen Empowerment Programme, PATH, Intersex Persons Society of Kenya, Kenya Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Society (KEOGS) and Christine Kipsang’ and advocate. The Committee observed the following after having a lengthy discussion on this Bill: 1. The Bill seeks to provide regulation of assisted reproductive technology to prohibit certain practices in connection with assisted reproductive technology and to establish Assisted Reproductive Technology Authority and to make provision in relation to children born through assisted reproductive technology process. 2. The principal object of the Bill is to regulate rights and obligations relating to assisted reproductive technology. It also aims to regulate the use of assisted reproductive technology to aid individuals or couples that have challenges conceiving due to factors associated with infertility. Furthermore, the Bill aims to regulate the qualifications of health practitioners who administer assisted reproductive technology in order to protect the recipients. 3. In addition, the Bill contains provisions that define rights touching on, among others, issues relating to consent preceding assisted reproduction, such as handling of embryos resulting from assisted reproductive technology; protecting the identity, status and welfare of children born of assisted reproduction; and duties of persons who undergo assisted reproduction and their legal status as parents. 4. The Bill establishes an Assisted Reproductive Technology Authority to regulate the process, including licensing, standards, research and infrastructure related to assisted reproductive technology. The legislative scheme of this Bill has been modelled in a manner that addresses the balance 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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