Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1071336,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1071336/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 280,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 434,
        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
        "slug": "james-nyikal"
    },
    "content": "The embryos or gametes can be used to clone human beings. This is because at an early stage you can divide an embryo into the numbers you want and have identical people. Where shall we stop? This needs to be looked into. Therefore, this law will help us with this. These embryos are also called stem cells and can be developed to produce organs at one stage. People can start to export them so that they are used to create organs that are sold. At this moment, we do not have any law stopping us from doing that. So, people may say we should not go into it for legal and moral issues but remember that opens a space for other people to do it because there is no law they are breaking. So, we need to bring that into being. Think of the research itself. People can start to cross species. You can have a human ovum being crossed with an animal one. You do not know what research people can do. There has to be law that stops that. We need to have a law for the information that the children and the parents will need later on. Thirty years later what will happen? People may want to donate sperms when they are sick and fear that they might die. Sperms can be used posthumously. What is the law? When you talk of parties, is it only married couples that will actually be allowed to do this? What about couples that are not married? What does the law say? Worse still what about same sex couples? They may want to have children. So, we need the law. What about the commercialisation? Are you going to give sperms or eggs for a fee or embryos to be sold? How do you do that in surrogacy? Are you going to do…"
}