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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Shaban",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Special Programmes",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 139,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. First of all, I want to add my voice to that of all my colleagues who have been congratulating the work which has been done by the Committee of Experts together with our own colleagues, the Parliamentary Select Committee. A lot of work has gone into this document. As we are looking at it, when the law was being crafted so that this document could come to this House to be debated for 30 days, it was because we were meant to actually add value to what the Committee of Experts and the Parliamentary Select Committee have already done. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to touch on a few issues. One is the issue of the right to life. Yes, we agree that this beautiful life begins in several stages. It starts with a zygote and then goes to a foetus. From a fetus it ends up being a baby. This life must be protected. If we do not protect the two stages, then finally we will not have a baby. So, certainly, I agree that life is God’s gift and it must be protected. But at the same time, you cannot protect life without protecting the vehicle which takes care of it. The vehicle here is the mother. Some of the pregnancies do manifest as a disease. If they manifest as a disease, the only way for that disease to be taken care of is through treatment. Now, as we are debating on this, I am calling upon all colleagues to give support to the amendment which will be brought by one of our colleagues, on making sure that we have good language so that we can carry all of us, including the religious leaders. This is because we need to make sure that we protect the baby, the mother and also the medical practitioner who will be taking care of the two. A medical practitioner is not a witchdoctor. He is a person who takes care of life and the only happiness a doctor would have is to deliver a safe and healthy baby and also to have a healthy mother. We can work on that and I am sure our colleagues will support this so that we have the right wordings and make sure that our religious leaders and all Kenyans will be with us on this. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I come from an area where land is such a thorny issue. I have read the land chapter and I am not happy with what I have seen in it. That is why I have said that we have come here to add value to this document. In the current Constitution, Chapter IX on trust lands, some of our trust lands have actually been protected in the current Constitution. But this new proposed Constitution has set aside all the gains we had made. All the protection that we had in the Current Constitution has"
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