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    "id": 1369154,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1369154/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "no regulation. Yet, this technology has a lot of issues with it. If you talk about medical issues, harvesting embryos from women, particularly young girls, or harvesting ova from those who offer to give the eggs, is a surgical procedure. They have to go through it. There are legal issues that are involved. There are sperm banks, but sometimes there are specific offers. There have to be laws that regulate that. When you have those sperm form embryos, the embryos become available. They can be used to produce babies, or they can go into research, which will bring many ethical issues. Even when used, it brings issues of multiple pregnancies or embryos that are produced simultaneously. As Hon. Shakeel has said, this can go on to make multiple pregnancies and sometimes, there is even a need to reduce this. What is the ethical situation where you are killing a living embryo? That is an ethical issue or even a legal issue together. Going into the Constitution on the definition of when life begins, those are issues that we have to look at. There are issues like sex selection. When you have the embryo, people can choose which embryo they let go, and which sex they want. Would it be right if now, you choose, I want this sex and therefore, I will destroy this other embryo? Those are issues that will come. There are issues with using surrogate mothers where wombs can be hired so that the person who carries the baby to term is not the mother who had the ova. This is hired by a couple. When that happens, it raises the issue of parenthood. Who is the mother? What are the legal implications? How do you agree on such issues? The embryos can even be stored for future use. What laws will regulate such issues, and who will store the embryos? When young people fall sick and realise that they are likely to die, they may request that their sperm, ova or embryos be produced and stored for future use. How will this be controlled? Assisted reproductive health may even turn into a business. If it becomes a business, who sells what, and how will one get into surrogacy?"
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