{"id":109624,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/109624/?format=json","text_counter":578,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o","speaker_title":"The Minister for Medical Services","speaker":{"id":193,"legal_name":"Peter Anyang' Nyong'o","slug":"peter-nyongo"},"content":" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to make a very small contribution. In this House, we talk about religious leaders supporting this but we seem only to be referring to religious leaders who are in the “high churches”. If you consult the Legio Maria Church, The Church of Jesus Christ around the World, Dini ya Msambwa and the Akorino, these people support the fact that “every person has the right to life”. That seems to be the common view of most Kenyans at that level. So whereas, I would definitely appreciate the opinion of the “high church” and I belong to a “high church” myself, I would not like the minority opinion to be taken as representative of the popular masses. The popular masses will easily live with Article 26(1) which says every person has a right to life and since the Attorney-General told us that he can live with 2 and tolerate 3, we shall grant in that concession. What is surely necessary in this amendment as I had earlier said, is every person has a right to life and I am quite sure that if Steadman or whatever organization took an opinion poll, they would find that most Christians would go along with that."}