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    "id": 1083542,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to comment on this Bill. I have just been speaking to the promoter and I think she has put in a lot of her time and research. The Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill is basically test-tube babies in simple language that Kenyans can understand. It is what is popularly called as the IVF process. It is foreign to many Kenyans generally in the villages and communities, but it is not that foreign. I also come from a community, like my colleagues, particularly Hon. Sankok has said, that believe in invitro-fertilisation. The communities can be very conservative. Therefore, later on, we should be coming up with amendments that will deal with cultural practices that will hinder the progress of this progressive Bill. We also have the religious practices that will come up. I am happy that one of the speakers earlier spoke to the issue of this going to court at one point in time depending on the cultural and the religious practices of the people and Kenyans who will interact with this Bill. However, to allay some fears to the extent which I can, the ART is not very new in the world. I think one of the speakers spoke to this. That, by 1977, this was already being done in the world and the first child by the name Lesley Brown had been created in a test-tube. That must have been in England. Today, as we lead to allay the fears, over 9 million people living in the world have gone through this process. Therefore, we are living with them all over the world. The Bill seeks to regulate the rights and obligations relating to ART and it is very good. It further seeks to regulate the use of ART for people who have challenges with fertility. This is good. It will give them a chance not to be stigmatised on the basis of being unable to have a child for both men and women. The Bill further comes to regulate the obligations in the medical practitioners and people who will be allowed to carry out this activity. For me, this is very good because currently, those practices are going on but underworld. Therefore, non-qualified practitioners are actually doing this job and they are doing it underworld. As they do it, the risks 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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