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    "id": 1071314,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "between the need to regulate ethics and advancement of modern science and technology. 5. The Committee noted that the Health Act, 2017 enabled the Cabinet Secretary to establish a directorate under the Ministry of Health to deal with specific areas of health. In this regard, and taking note of the need for rationalisation of semi-autonomous state agencies under the Ministry of Health, there were no sufficient reasons for establishment of the authority as there were existing structures that could be realigned to take on its role including the MOH Reproductive Health Unit. 6. The Committee also observed that the Bill lacked sufficient provisions to deal with pertinent issues arising from assisted reproductive technology such as prohibition of commercial surrogacy, provision of compensation mechanisms to ensure that service is not exploitative in nature, the need for prohibition of sex selection and abandonment of children when they are born. 7. The Committee also notes that Section 11 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act needs to be aligned with the proposed Bill to allow registration of children born out of assisted reproduction by commissioning parents as currently provided, registration can only be undertaken with the surrogate mother. This has posed a great challenge as the biological parents have to undertake the legal adoption process in order to be registered as parents. 8. The Committee finally noted that the Senate was in the process of considering the Reproductive Health Bill, 2019 whose objectives are to provide for rights and reproductive health care, set standards of reproductive health and also, provide the right to make decisions regarding reproductive health and for connected purposes. This Bill seeks to provide legal framework for enforcement and implementation of reproductive health and assisted reproduction. However, the National Assembly Bill specifically deals with assisted reproduction and does not delve into the entire realm of reproductive health rights. In this regard, some memoranda received were misplaced to the extent that they proposed the amendments dealing with this aspect of reproductive health which were not relevant. Hon. Deputy Speaker…"
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