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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "designed many kinds of clothes. We also have improvements in the health sector. Today, we have kidney transplants and blood transfusion. These are life sustaining processes which we have learnt through exploiting our environment and nature. Today, we have technology. We have learnt that we can help those who have difficulties to procreate in the natural way. I do not see how this is a negative thing. This is a good thing whose time has come. I support the Bill. For those of us who have the capacity to procreate naturally to stand here and say that we should stop those who cannot procreate naturally from accessing assisted procreation services, would be delving in selfishness. I support this Bill, which seeks to create a proper legal framework through which this process can be done so that those people who want to access assisted procreation services can do so in a regulated way and be protected from the malpractices of those quacks who will want to enrich themselves from such processes and hurt our population. I have carefully listened to hon. Members. Some of them seem to be confusing in- vitro fertilisation with genetic engineering and re-engineering. What this Bill proposes is not genetic engineering. We are not going to interfere with the DNA and the other material that is contained in the DNA. We are only doing fertilisation. In itself, genetic engineering has its own problems. I do not think those problems should be transported into this Bill. We do not want to give people a chance to go out there and say that we are legislating for designer children. This is not the purpose of this Bill. Far from it, this Bill is only seeking to help members of the society who cannot naturally procreate. This Bill is well balanced. It provides for sanctions against those who will abuse the process. It also addresses all the societal concerns and clearly provides how the material will be handled and those who abuse the material will be dealt with. This is a good Bill. For those reasons, I support."
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