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    "id": 1369151,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Yes, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Mine is a personal testimony. We went through the whole process, as I said four times. Each time, we would lose the battle. In the process, we developed knowledge. For the first time, we were very green at this. We were just taken through, and at one time, we were treated like guinea pigs at a very good hospital. There was nothing different between us and what they were doing for maybe animals. This was about 15 to 20 years ago. That has redefined itself, and those things have been improved. The people have been able to pay much more attention to the issue of assisted reproductive technology. So, by the fourth time, we were able to. It is a long process, and it is a very painful process, especially for the mother. To go through that process, it needs a lot of strength. Even at the end of it, we were not sure even at the last trimester whether we would save all the children. It is only the strength of the hospital, the people behind it, and the professionalism of how it was done that we could go through. We will now have a directorate to whom we can go and complain. It is over for those who probably went through and were making big money for no reason and treating you like animals. When I used to go for those sessions, I would see many young girls coming to donate their eggs. They had no strength, and they had no right in law. This will give them the right in law. At least, this is the first step in taking this matter move forward, making sense of it, and joining what we call the cutting-edge technology of assisted reproductive health. From that point of view, I am a very pleased man to support this Bill, and I am giving my testimony. I stand here as one of you who has benefited and not one time. God has been great. The issue of assisted technology requires God's blessing. It cannot be done without that. I am proud to say that I am a father of four-year-old children who are a gift to us through assisted technology."
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