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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to speak to the Statement by Sen. Hamida on the matter of unwanted pregnancies due to ineffective contraception. I have previously spoken on the issue of adolescent health in this country. I have indicated that as a country, the greatest problem we have is the neglect of adolescent boys and girls. The 1.4 million unintended pregnancies are as a result of negligence that we have. I have previously given statistics around teen pregnancies in this country. As at now, between 2016 and now, we have had nearly 1.6 million teen pregnancies in these countries. Those are young girls who are defiled and who engaged in sexual activity and got pregnant, but this is a record of those who got pregnant and attempted to get rid of those pregnancies. I wish we could look at this issue not in a silo manner, but as a matter of killing our future. Even as we look at the issue of abortion, the solution here is not providing family planning. The issue here is what programmes we are putting in place to safeguard the livelihoods of our children. I would like to tell you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, that out of those who are pregnant, we have 150 who are aged 10 and 14 years. Those are going to be mothers and yet, in the Ministry of Education, we have no programme on sex education. This information and more information that keeps coming around pregnancies and abortions is a call upon to us to stop continuing with the policy of no-sex education in schools. We need sex education in schools. We need our girls and boys to be told the consequences of casual sex. We need our girls and boys to be told that we have offences like defilement and that someone having sex under the age of 18 is criminal in this country. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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