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    "id": 940706,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "accept whether she should have a medical test or not. We are not addressing this issue from a serious angle. We need to revert to the previous cultures. I was brought up in a society whereby a child belonged to the community and when a child committed an offense in public, then any person who is above 18 year of age had got a right to discipline that child. However, nowadays, our society has been corrupted in the sense that you can see a child committing a mistake and you do not have a right to correct that child instantly just because that child does child does not belong to your family. It is, therefore, important for us to start relooking at these emerging laws that protect the right of a child. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Bill is very good, but we need to look into ways in which it does not eventually come out as a Bill to encourage teenage pregnancy. As it stands right now, we are giving a lot of rights to that child and we are glorifying that child who gets pregnant. We are giving her a lot of comfort. In the past generations, a child who got pregnant was, in fact, considered an outcast. We had stringent measures to ensure that children to do not indulge in such an activity. In our tradition, when a child got an unwanted pregnancy before marriage, we used to put a black pot on top of the house so that everybody can notice that there is somebody who committed an offense in that village. It is, therefore, very important that we try and not glorify teenage pregnancy. It should be even punishable for someone to get pregnant under the age of 18. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have a lacuna in law. We have only envisaged a situation whereby a person over 18 years impregnating a teenager. We have not envisaged a situation whereby a teenager impregnates a teenager. What happens in such a situation? Do you jail or punish the boy yet he is a teenager? Do you punish the girl or both of them?"
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