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    "id": 1071362,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to speak on this important Bill for this country. I would like to appreciate and applaud Hon. (Ms.) Millie Odhiambo for this effort. From the outset, I would like to say that Kenya requires this law. The reason being that it will help stabilize families; families that are in distress and dire straits because of childlessness. The advent of technology is the beauty of living in this world today. Technology has come to solve the problems that we have. One of them is this assisted reproductive technology that we have today that can actually be used in this country to ensure that families become stable. Today, there are many families where there is a lot of discord because they have never had a child. Either the man is unhappy, or the woman is unhappy because either of them are unable to bear children. The in-laws look at this woman and say: “Look at this woman, she came here but she is not helping to grow this family.” However, using assisted reproductive technology is an opportunity that we have but the problem is that we do not have a legal framework. The opportunity presented here by Hon. (Ms.) Millie Odhiambo is that now we are going to have legal framework that can help these families have children. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have had a lot of depression cases in this country. We have had suicides as a result of depression. We have had people suffering from high blood pressure because of these issues. When we solve this problem by ensuring that there is a legal framework, we are probably going to see a decline in the number of depressed people in families. Also, we might see a decline in the cost of seeking medical care because of high blood pressure and related issues. Why? We are giving a solution to this. This 12th Parliament needs to go into history that it actually came through for the country by ensuring that we have a legal framework for assisted reproduction. I have seen and read the Report and the several recommendations that have been made. I have been to India and they have very many specialized clinics for assisted reproductive health. When you go into those clinics, you will see many Africans and many Kenyans who leave this country carrying millions of shillings to India to ensure that they seek these services. When they do that, medical tourism benefits India so much. They do not seek it here because it is expensive. The few doctors who practise here are very expensive. These people spend a lot of money going to India to seek this treatment. 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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