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How proposed law seeks to protect ‘test tube’ babies

Mbita MP Millie Odhiambo has sponsored the Invitro Fertilisation Bill.

Nairobi, Kenya: The National Assembly will soon debate a Bill designed to protect test tube babies and their mothers.

The term “test tube baby” refers to a human baby created by uniting the mother‘s egg and the father‘s sperm in a laboratory dish or test tube, a process known as in vitro fertilisation, and then putting the egg inside a woman — either the biological mother or a surrogate (substitute mother) — to grow.

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