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    "id": 1148381,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1148381/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "THAT, Clause 204 of the Bill be amended in sub clause (1) by deleting the word “parents” appearing immediately after the words “obligations and liabilities of the” and substituting therefor the words “biological parents in case of a first adoption or adoptive parents in case of subsequent adoption” Clause 204 deals with the rights and duties of parents and capacity to marry for children who are adopted. This amendment seeks to enable parents know that once they give out their child for adoption, they relinquish all rights to that child. They cannot give their child for adoption and still hope that they are a parent to that child. In case of a subsequent adoption, if you are an adoptive parent, you let go of those rights of a child. That is what this amendment seeks to do. We are deleting the word “parents” and being very clear that it is biological parents in case of the first adoption or adoptive parents, in the case of a subsequent adoption, that would lose their right and not all parents or any parent."
}