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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "had spoken to experts. These issues are about human experience; the experts are supposed to help facilitate it. That may well be the case in the proposed Bill. However, that Bill is a promise and the rules of this House cannot be anticipating how that will turn out. That may not come through. It may be rejected for any reason. So, I do not think we can anchor today’s discussions on tomorrow’s promise. When that hits the House, then we will look at ways in which we can marry the two in order that we go forward. I think it is legitimate that we contribute to the discussion in the light of what has been presented before us. Having children in life is a basic fundamental right. Everybody could do that if they so wished; others do not want to have some of their own and so they adopt, which is also a legitimate process. The aim of this particular process which is science-driven, but not entirely science-governed, is seeking also to provide safeguards around that process. There is no doubt that the world is moving on and again there are many technologies that are available. Those do not have to be brought in an omnibus Bill that may be thousands of pages. That is not going to help us. We want to focus on what is at hand. If later we need to aggregate these, we can do the aggregation. Kenyan women and men are picking and taking cue from what science is doing. Abuse of processes and scientific knowledge is enormous. People can create an artificial human being just as they did with sheep in the United Kingdom by clowning hair or something like that. It can do many crazy things. There are a lot of possibilities. Human beings have the atomic bomb that they have decided to keep under control. They can destroy life if they so choose. The knives we carry can be used to kill somebody, but they also help us to do many other things. Science is double-edged in many ways. What I would have expected to hear from the Departmental Committee on Health is their commentary on introduction of science and public policy. Public policy is what brings in the aspirations of the people. In its collectivity, we can talk about how it ought to be governed for us to move forward. If we stay entirely with what science tells us yet we are not able to pick it up, we will stay behind for a long time."
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