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    "id": 491050,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/491050/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as an expert in this area, I can strongly confirm to you that out of 1,000 pregnancies in this country, 103 are by children aged between 12 and 15 years. The good news is that the causes are such that there is something we can do about it. Therefore, I want to congratulate the Mover of the Motion and urge her to go beyond the Motion and come up with a Bill and, probably, call it the Teenage Mothers Support Bill which will become an Act of Parliament. That Bill will address all the cases and solve them. First, this problem of teenage pregnancies is caused by peer group pressure, rape, cultural practices, broken families, poverty, lack of sexual awareness, alcohol and drug abuse. All these things; we can do something about them. Because this is so important, as an expert again, let me bring to your attention the fact that this situation impacts so seriously on a youth to the extent that of all these mothers, you find that they are depressed, left in isolation or stigmatized. Some of them even die. The appalling thing about the deaths is that up to 70,000 mothers who are teenagers die in developing countries every day."
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