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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to support this Bill. Hon. Maore Maoka was here. He has just stepped out. He should be back in a few minutes. I want to congratulate the Mover of the Bill, Hon. Millie. However, I have a few issues with it. I will mention them in due course. This Bill is very important for this country because we need a licensing authority which will put in place how the assisted or test tube babies are made in this country. We are very far behind. This country has not had a proper law guiding this principle of assisted fertility or reproductive technology. Brown, the first test-tube baby was made in the world about 40 years ago. We have since come far from those days. Nowadays, there are even designer babies. Here we chose the people we want. This includes the colour of the eyes, hair or even if you want a male or a female and many other attributes. Hopefully, we could enhance this Bill so that there is no selection of gender when the embryos are fertilised with the gametes or whatever it is. Hon. Speaker, this Bill goes ahead on Page 436 to talk about a couple recognised as marriage under the laws of Kenya. We have many single mothers who would want to have a baby, but do not want to be connected with any man. This Bill does not even say what would happen in that case. If there is somebody who desires to have a baby but cannot because they cannot commit to a relationship, then we need to cater for them. There is also the question of surrogacy. It is there and it says that no compensation should be given to a surrogate mother. It is not easy to carry a baby to term. Definitely, the surrogate mother will experience health complications; and even much after the baby is born and the 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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