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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "which I will be bringing--- We need to see how the Government can assist women who cannot have children. The husbands and wives should go for counselling and check-up so that the Government can assist them in getting the babies that they require. The costs are so prohibitive. The Mover has said that it is over Kshs 300,000. Not many people can afford it but they want children. The hon. Member for Turkana said “multiplying” in the Bible does not mean multiplying but it talks about procreation. The essence of marriage is procreation. A lot of people, when they get married, think about what the Quran and the Bible say; that people should get married to procreate. That is what it is all about. Regarding In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF), there is the concept of three-parent babies which has been legislated in the United Kingdom (UK). In the United States of America it had been started but the Food and Drug Administration Agency has stopped it for now until further research has been done. One good thing about this Bill is that in IVF, the bad part of the egg will be removed. Where there are mitochondrial diseases like diabetes and deafness, they are removed. We need to come up with ways of having a healthy population. Nobody wants a population that is suffering from diseases. With this we can remove the bad traits in anybody’s embryo and they cannot be passed on from one to another generation. We need to come up with ways on how we are going to do it and people should be encouraged. In some cultures, it is acceptable that if you are unable to have a baby with your husband then you can have one with your husband’s brother which is against many cultures. We need to regulate this field and the best way is by supporting this Bill. We need to see how we can have these fertility clinics which are more open, where medical standards are observed and people are given a free choice. Rather than going overseas they can be done here in this country in a free environment. They do not have to go to England, South Africa or India. There is a law banning choice of gender in the embryo in India. In the Indian culture, boys are preferred over girls. Previously, when girls were born they were killed but with this new technology people can choose the gender of the baby. However, this is already banned in India. We need to put this in law. We need to put amendments to it. With those few remarks, I would like to support hon. Millie Odhiambo. The Departmental Committee on Health should accept to bring amendments to this as there are other things which we need to have in the Health Bill which we hope will come in 2015 and not in 2017. Thank you."
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