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    "id": 1412869,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1412869/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, with all due respect, during the pandemic, over 300,000 girls were defiled and became pregnant. Since safe abortions are not permitted and the Ministry has not released the regulations on safe abortions and trained doctors on the same, those girls are forced to have children and they end up getting fistula. We should not look at the behavioural circumstances that lead to fistula. Many people suffer from fistula today due to sexual gender-based violence. Young girls get fistula due to rape and defilement. We need to ensure that we provide fistula operations or safe abortions for young girls aged 10, 11 or 12 years old. The only reason we cannot currently provide safe abortions is because we have not released the regulations on safe abortions and yet, the law permits a doctor to perform a safe abortion if he or she determines it to be necessary. It is wrong to assume that a girl’s behaviour leads to fistula. I know many women who have delivered babies and because they have small passages, they end up with fistula. Many of those women are married. The women who I am currently dealing with and who are suffering from fistula are married. Fistula can also be caused by surgical procedures gone wrong and inflammations due to urinary tract infections (UTIs)."
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