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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this. This Bill has come here for the third time and has lapsed, but it is an extremely important Bill. The objective of this Bill is to regulate assisted reproductive technology. What that means is to assist couples or people who desire to have children and cannot, to assist people with infertility. Basically, it means that technology assists the eggs or the ovum from the lady and the sperm from the man to come together, fertilisation takes place and an embryo is formed. That embryo gets into a womb biologically and ready to grow into a baby. That is the issue. Normally, this would happen naturally, but it may fail either because the sperms are not there in the man, or they are there, and they are not functional, or the eggs are not there in a woman, or if they are there, the systems that bring them together fails. Or the womb itself is not ready, or in some circumstances, after surgery, the womb is removed, and the lady would still want to have a child. That technology is actually what we are talking about. Infertility is a very serious problem. It affects couples; it affects people who are single and who would like to have children as single parents. Many times in our society, it has affected women more adversely than men because in couples, when fertility is a problem, and when reproduction fails, often the woman is blamed. In almost all languages, there are very derogatory words for that. Therefore, women suffer. In men, when it happens, it has problems. There are large numbers of people and couples that are affected and, therefore, they need this service as a medical service. What is happening now is happening in this country, and sometimes people have to travel outside the country to get the services. The problem is that, as that is happening, there is 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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