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    "id": 542028,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/542028/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2197,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
        "slug": "daniel-kitonga-maanzo"
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    "content": "comes to the Committee Stage, we will be making proposals to improve the law and make it even much better, so that people in this country can be served better. Currently, what is happening is that if a woman carries a child for another woman she becomes the mother of that child by law. One has to go through a process of adoption in courts. It is a rigorous exercise to claim the child. A lot of time passes and the mother who bore the child for another mother could even get attached to this child. She actually has some rights to this child, although they are not covered by any law. With the current law, she can refuse to hand over the child and might even have to be paid for doing the job of bearing the child. There are no standards as to the minimum amount one should be paid for doing that sort of job. There is no way one can separate the surrogate mother from the child. This is because when she bears a child there is a connection which is natural, and there is every tendency for that particular woman to want to keep that child. This law is very important and we want to support it. We want it to increase the cohesiveness of the family. It is said that before you build a nation, you have to first build a strong family, then constituencies and eventually a nation. I support this law."
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