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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also want to thank my senior who has really taught us a lesson that you must be very persistent in what you push. I thank God for the grace she has always had when dealing with this matter. As I second, I want to say that parenthood is one of the most remarkable things or transformations that men and women go through. However, if there is something that also brings you down as a human being then it is the moment you realise you cannot have a child. That is the time you go into a mental health challenge which many of the families Hon. Millie has talked about have gone through. At the time, you find that many of them are unable even to sit with their relatives just because their relatives are talking about them every day. They see you get married then you go year one and year two without a child and the family and parents start nagging. It becomes very challenging. They will not even care whether it is the woman or the man. Usually, women go ninety per cent into that mental challenge. Even if it is the problem of men, they will never come out to say. That is why, in the old days, you would see families go around and make sure the wife is able to get a child through their own family ways and keep quiet when they know their son is the problem. If it is a woman, the challenge we face as women is that the family will not even want you. They will never remember what they normally do for their sons. Even as we speak about this, let us appreciate that this Bill now comes in to bring that dignity and a chance for any woman or family in this country to have a healthy baby. You can go through the five methods in the Bill and be certain that one of them will work for you. You will have a child hence the dignity we look at. The one thing I appreciate about this Bill is that it brings in a directorate that gives us regulations. The agony women go through in search of treatment is one thing even doctors have taken advantage of. The doctor will not care when you have this treatment and it does not work. Besides, you already paid him the Ksh500,000 or Ksh300,000. You will go home and start afresh and you will have no place to go and say what really happened. You will have no place to question. There will be no regulations to guide you or awareness on the right clinic you need to go to or if this is the wrong clinic. You find that we move from here to India and come back. We are there when it backfires. As I speak on this, a girl was in the county assembly, and went through this process, but it backfired on her. It turned around and became the worst nightmare until the end. We buried her. To date, it is still very painful. If we have this Bill becoming an Act to guide us, then we will follow the process and with the doctors. The other challenge to be cured by this Bill is the matter of the surrogate mothers agreeing to carry the baby. This is another challenge many families have gone through. You will come in, agree and start the process. After delivery, the surrogate mother says, “I want to stay with the baby and breastfeed”. You have to agree to bring her in. When she bonds with 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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