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    "id": 1557913,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. To the Cabinet Secretary through the Speaker, I want to talk about what Hon. Oundo has said on the issue of children. We know that in Kenya, we have many defiled children. We also have many children who engage in sex before they reach the age of 18. We have a serious problem. If a family has the SHA cards, there is the wife, husband and children. If the wife has given birth, and two to three months later the daughter is giving birth because she was defiled, the system has no way of picking that child and giving her the right cover because she is a minor. We know that during the pandemic, we had over 300,000 minors that got pregnant through defilement. How do you offer services to a defiled minor who is giving birth under their parents’ medical card, when her mother has also given birth? How do you accommodate the minor in the same family unit with the same membership number to get the right services? The minor could be 10 or 12 years old, but the society will look at her as a full-grown woman. By the age of 18, she will have been defiled and misused over and over again. I want to know whether you can ensure she is counselled and put under a family planning programme so that she does not have a child at 13, 14, 15 or 16 years? Then, before you know it, she has wasted her life with no education and becomes a burden to her family, and her children are a burden to her. We also have a big problem with abortion guidelines. The court gave a ruling that the Ministry should issue the guidelines? I want to know whether the guidelines will be based on religious beliefs or as permitted under the Constitution? Have they been spoken to by the courts so that we can have safe abortions when they are required? Thank you."
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