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    "id": 1369168,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": "women. This law addresses the issue of exploitation. When a surrogate carries a child, she has to be adequately compensated as per a contract between the intended parents and the surrogate mother. It also prevents the surrogate mother from running away with a child. A surrogate mother cannot say that a child is handsome, and they do not give it to the intended parents. In Kenya, surrogacy agreements are recognised. They bind the surrogate mother to deliver the baby according to the contract. This law also ensures that the baby is well protected. For example, if a baby is born with a disability, and the intended parent refuses to honour the agreement, the surrogacy agreement prevents the intended parent from choosing the kind of child they will accept. The moment a child of their genetic formation is born, that child belongs to them. Those are some of the things that this law will provide. When a man ejaculates, the semen contains a million sperms. Out of the five million sperm, only one fertilizes the ovum. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you and I are Catholics. We do not know whether it will be ethical to throw away the unused sperms. If they are going to be stored, the question is whether we can throw them away at some point without breaching ethics. This Bill does not address that. This Bill has been drafted such that ethical issues are minimised. Nevertheless, we need to ask ourselves those questions."
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