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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) R.K. Nyamai",
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        "legal_name": "Rachael Kaki Nyamai",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I do not want to repeat what my Vice Chair has said. We technically agreed that hon. (Dr.) Pukose, who is a medical doctor and was also best placed to give the expert opinion of the medical doctors and gynecologists in the Departmental Committee on Health, to present. I would like to start by saying that I respect the fact that hon. Millie Odhiambo has come up with this Bill which is very emotional and if we do not understand the expert opinion, we can be viewed as being against it. We are not against this Bill but we have listened to the technocrats. We have listened to gynecologists who have given us the information we are sharing here today, that when you talk of assisted fertilization, you are not only talking about IVF. You are talking about so many other things which the Ministry in the Health Bill, which we are promising that it will be here in two weeks, has handled very well. If this Bill passes, and we believe that it is going to pass because the country is waiting for it--- After devolution, this is the Bill the country is waiting. This Bill is going to repeal the Bill we are talking about. If this becomes an Act, what we are discussing here will be repealed. However, in coming up with this Report, we looked at what other countries are doing knowing very well there are countries that are far ahead of Kenya. What we realized is that various countries today, after a comparative analysis of medically assisted reproductive legislation, are not focusing on one approach to assisted fertilization. They are putting all of them together because it only depends on the doctor’s advice. I remember one of the gynecologists in the team and an hon. Member telling us how it happens and that it is not only about IVFs but about so many others. The best way to approach this is to convince the Member to withdraw and then sit with us and make it wide so that it touches on all this. The best approach would be even to join us when we are working on the Health Bill because all these matters have been discussed there. I want to go back to the issue of comparative analysis. In Austria, they have a law called Tissue Safety Law which handles all these matters. In Belgium, they have a law on IVF, but the same IVF touches on matters of law embryo research; it is part of it. You cannot The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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