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    "id": 542061,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Tuya",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": "communities where a woman is not able to have her own children, she is allowed to actually ‘marry’ a woman to get children for her own lineage and succession purposes. So, it is not a foreign concept. What I want to urge hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona is to find a way--- I am aware that the Departmental Committee on Health is thinking of ways of expanding this Bill, so that we are not talking of IVF only; we can expand it and include all other methods of assisted reproduction, so that women and, indeed, families can be helped. This is because when a woman within a marriage is not able to have children, it is a cause for concern not just to her but also to her husband and the entire community. So, this is something that is going to affect all of us, many families and not just women. The other thing I wish to say is that we will need a lot of awareness creation once we have crossed the bridge of putting together a very comprehensive legal framework, so that children born out of surrogacy and the parents involved in this are not seen as unacceptable. You know there is the whole question of acceptability within the community, because this is not a concept which is very well known. That is so that we have protection, social acceptance of the surrogate mothers as well as the biological mothers, who are going to be assisted through surrogacy. With those few remarks, I support the Bill and congratulate hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona for bringing here a Bill, which is going to touch very many women and families across the board in this country."
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