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3. Moral obligation to future generations

Bayless, Philosopher, [Morality and Population Policy] 1980


 

Moral principles are taken to be those which reasonable


4. In carrying capacity risk assessment always assume the worst – err on the worst of caution

Costonza 1991, prof at U of Maryland, [Calypso Log] pg. 22


 

Given all this, what can be said about the 


Malthus vs. Family Planning

1. Turn – US assistance empirically creates rising expectations of prosperity in African states---this attitude is at the root of overpopulation

Abernethy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1993 (http://www.carryingcapacity.org/va2.html)


 

Between the end of World War II and 1970 fertility


2. Turn – Population momentum will ensure the plan causes continued growth – only death can save SSA

Thomas J Coliber, Ph.D in history from Kent State University, is a senior fellow with The Futures Group International, [Population Bulletin – Population and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa] 1997


 

These high birth rates have kept the countries


3. Turn – Coercion –

A. Reproductive rights undermine the ability for a state to coerce its population

Kates – professor of Philosophy at Ithaca College – 2004 [Carol, Reproductive Liberty And Overpopulation, Reproductive Liberty, Environmental Values 13:1]


 

A “human rights” approach to reproduction would

B. The impact is extinction – coercive policies are key

Kates – professor of Philosophy at Ithaca College – 2004 [Carol, Reproductive Liberty And Overpopulation, Reproductive Liberty, Environmental Values 13:1]


 

In sum, population reduction appears to be necessary


4. No risk of offense – the aff cannot reduce fertility rates – economic, cultural, and agriculture situation in SSA is unique

Thomas J Coliber, Ph.D in history from Kent State University, is a senior fellow with The Futures Group International, [Population Bulletin – Population and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa] 1997


 

Why has fertility remained so high in


5. No offense – motivation is the only factor that explains fertility rates---all other indicators, including family planning, don’t change individual behaviors

Abernethy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1994 (The Atlantic Monthly 274.6)


 

Overpopulation afflicts most countries but remains


6. Empirically mortality has a larger impact on population growth than fertility

KIMBALL 2006 [John, professor of biology @ Tufts, “Human Population Growth”, http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html]


 

Birth rate (b) − death rate (d) = rate of natural


7. Decreasing fertility does not prevent population growth

GUNTHER FISCHER and GERHARD K. HEILIG, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, [The Royal Society] 1997 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1691987&blobtype=pdf


 

World population will grow significantly in spite

Farm Bill Politics


Bipartisan efforts ensure an override of Bush's farm bill veto.
Allbritton 12/17/07 (Jay, "Senate Passes Huge Farm Bill",
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2007/12/17/senate-passes-huge-farm-bill/
On Friday, the Senate approved a $286 billion farm bill...an
overwhelming majority."

Bipartisanship's key to override the veto and dissolve deadlock AND


issues spill over
Newsday 7 (If Democrats bend a little, they'll gain a lot, 10/07/2007,
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opsch075404191oct07,0,7652706.story
In Washington, both Democrats...appears willing to stomach.

Farm bill's essential to offset economic devastation and the global


food supply – delays risk destroying it's benefits
Coynyn 12/26/07—serves on the armed services, judiciary and budget
committees. In addition, he is vice chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Ethics. He serves as the top republican on the judiciary
committee's immigration, border security and refugees subcommittee and
the armed services committee's airland subcommittee.,
26.DEC.07—("Continuing agriculture policies that work", U.S. Sen. John
Cornyn, http://www.wilsoncountynews.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=59&twindow=
Default&mad=Yes&sdetail=17471&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1000&hn=wilsoncountynews&he=.com
Five years ago, when commodity ...of our farmers and ranchers.

Bearden


Notre Dame (All Teams) – Affirmative – Global Health Service




The United States federal government should establish a Global Health Service to expand the capacity of community health workers in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief focus countries in the area designated by the resolution. 
 

Assistance is being increased but are useless and ineffective without a more robust health care workforce.

Mullan, et al – 05 – Professor of Prevention and Community Health at George Washington University

(Fitzhugh Mullan, Claire Panosian, Patricia Cuff, Editors, Board of Global Health at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS, 4-19-2005, Preface, www.nap.edu/catalog/11270.html#toc ceb) 

Throughout history, human beings … insufficient human capacity in many developing countries to absorb, apply, and make efficient use of these new funds and critical health initiatives.  

In particular, Africa’s poor health infrastructure cripples efforts to prevent disease spread

Garret, 7 (Laurie, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, “Prepared Statement Before the Senate Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs,” 4-18-2007, www.cfr.org/publication/13130/) 

Public health systems keep babies and children alive. Medical … of public health and medical care 



In the short term, there will be millions of preventable deaths EACH YEAR

States News Service, 7 (“Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce African Health Capacity Investment of 2007”, March 7, Lexis-Nexis Universe)  

Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Norm Coleman (R-MN) and … and ensuring our efforts to fight these diseases succeed." 



The impact outweighs any disadvantage – AIDS kills hundreds of millions of people, causes genocide, ethnic cleansing and economic collapse – this both makes war more likely and magnifies its impact

Singer, 2 (Peter W., Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution: Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative, PhD in Government Harvard University, Department of Defense-Balkans Task Force, “AIDS and International Security”, Spring 2002, Survival Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2002, Pg. 145-148, www.brookings.edu/dybdocroot/views/articles/fellows/2002_singer.pdf) 

At the start of the new century, the AIDS epidemic is … million more will be infected just by 2005.



The cycle of AIDS transmission and war will allow the virus to mutate, become airborne and spread worldwide

Singer, 2 (Peter W., Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution: Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative, PhD in Government Harvard University, Department of Defense-Balkans Task Force, “AIDS and International Security”, Spring 2002, Survival Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2002, Pg. 145-148, www.brookings.edu/dybdocroot/views/articles/fellows/2002_singer.pdf) 

New Disease Threats



Wars also lead to the uprooting and … traced back to some ignored conflict elsewhere.  

The impact is extinction

Muchiri, 2000 (Michael Kibaara; Staff Member at Ministry of Education in Nairobi; “Will Annan finally put out Africa’s fires?” Jakarta Post; March 6; Lexis-Nexis Universe) 

The executive director of UNAIDS, Peter …the black race and maybe the human race.



A Global Health Service will mobilize thousands of health workers – federal leadership is key 

Mullan, 7 (Fitzhugh, MD, Department of Health Policy, George Washington University, JAMA, “Responding to the Global HIV/AIDS Crisis: A Peace Corps for Health,” 2-21-2007, 297:744-746, American Medical Association Journals database) 

This modest level of mobilization is in sharp contrast to the clear … say something about the United States—a message the world needs to hear.  



Without the plan all current health workers will give up – the plan is key to solve for disease. 

Mullan, et al – 05 – Professor of Prevention and Community Health at George Washington University

(Fitzhugh Mullan, Claire Panosian, Patricia Cuff, Editors, Board of Global Health at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS, 4-19-2005, Preface, www.nap.edu/catalog/11270.html#toc ceb)



Human beings are the heart of health care. It is … accomplish this task alone. 
 

The Global Health Service will quickly serve as a catalyst to build new healthcare capacity

Davis , 5 (Paul Davis, Director of Government Relations @ Health Global Access Project,“Strategic US Initiatives for Health Workforce Self Sufficiency in Developing Nations,” Health Gap Global Access Project, 12-1-2005, http://healthgap.org/HCWmemo.html)

This paper seeks to describe initiatives to sustainably achieve health … members could supervise and train community members while integrating them into the local health system. 



Community health workers provide a long-term solution to Africa’s healthcare worker shortage – they won’t migrate from the country

Dovio, 5 (Dr. Delanyo Dovlo, Chief of Party @ Population Council, Accra, Ghana and Former District Director of Medical Services, Former Regional Director in the Western Region, and the Former National Director of Human Resource Development. “Filling the gaps: Introducing substitute health workers in Africa.”  id21 Insights Health, Vol 7, August 2005, www.id21.org/insights/insights-h07/insights-issh07-art05.html) 

Massive shortages in trained health care professionals in sub-… for SHWs are lower than for the staff they are replacing.



The plan will create a sustainable health system that is not susceptible to brain drain

Davis , 5 (Paul Davis, Director of Government Relations @ Health Global Access Project,“Strategic US Initiatives for Health Workforce Self Sufficiency in Developing Nations,” Health Gap Global Access Project, 12-1-2005, http://healthgap.org/HCWmemo.html) 

It takes a long time to train the numbers of doctors and nurses necessary to meet US … to graduate new healthcare professionals.  


 

Finally, action against AIDS in Africa will lay the groundwork for stemming the spread of the disease globally

Morrison, 1 (J. Stephen, director of the Africa program at CSIS, The Washington Quarterly, Winter, “The African Pandemic Hits Washington,” http://www.twq.com/winter01/morrison.pdf) 

We finally began to recognize, at the end of the 1990s, that HIV/… set back progress and redefine global perceptions of  what is possible in Africa. 



Contention 2- Public Diplomacy 

U.S. credibility is at an all time low – a commitment to public health is necessary to repair America’s image

Fortin, 7 (Fred, worked in health care delivery for over 35 years and his experience ranges from mental health crisis intervention, child abuse prevention, studying AIDS in Africa, to university teaching and corporate health care strategic policy development, World Health Care Blog, “Soft Power and U.S. Health Care Revisited,” 6-12-2007, www.worldhealthcareblog.org/2007/06/12/soft-power-and-us-health-care-revisited/) 

I’ve argued previously that every health care issue confronting us today has underlying … are still burdened with living in this world and it still remains our job to make it work. 



Building upon the PEPFAR will help the U.S. rekindle international partnerships and create a sustainable foundation for benevolent hegemony

The Lancet, 5 (Editorial, “America at home and abroad,”  Jan 1-Jan 7, 2005, vol. 365, no. 945, Proquest) 

In international affairs, Bush's biggest task is to repair America's strained …, empathie, and secure superpower. 



Strategic humanitarianism will mute international criticism of U.S. unilateralism

Kassalow and Fox, 2001 (Jordan S. Kassalow, Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a Draper Richards Fellow and is on the Board of Lighthouse International, on the Medical Advisory Board of Helen Keller International, Daniel M. Fox, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund and advisor @ Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York, World Health News, “Making Health a Priority for US Foreign Policy”, October 26, 2001, http://www.cfr.org/publication/4143/making_health_a_priority_for_us_foreign_policy.html) 

This country's humanitarian commitment … political, economic, and ethical history of our country 

In particular, the Global Health Service will uniquely foster relationships and multicultural understanding to overwhelm anti-American abroad

Mullan, et al, 5 (Fitzhugh Mullan, Professor of Prevention and Community Health at George Washington University, Claire Panosian, Patricia Cuff, Editors, Board of Global Health at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS, 4-19-2005 

Humanitarianism marks the recently augmented public … cross-border personal networks



Public diplomacy overcomes issues like Iraq by helping to justify and explain US actions

Gedmin and Kennedy, 3 (Jeffrey Gedmin, director of the Aspen Institute Berlin and Craig Kennedy, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States; “Selling America – Short,” The National Interest, Winter 2003, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_74/ai_112411720) 

Traditional diplomacy can only go so far. consider what additional lessons history can offer 

A commitment to improving public health abroad is essential to reverse negative perceptions of the U.S. and sustain soft power leadership

Benatar & Fox, 5 (Solomon R. Benatar – Professor of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Capetown, and Renée C. Fox – Professor of Sociology and Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, “Meeting Threats to Global Health: A call for American leadership,” 48.3 (2005) 344-361, Project Muse, JMP)  

Self-Interest as a Force for Improving Global Health

Just as America has sought widespread solidarity in its campaign against terrorism, so … the threats to and the potential for global health. 

Soft power is key to hard power – its decline will cause domestic isolationism

Nye, 4 (Joseph, dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Political Science Quarterly, Summer) 

THE COSTS OF IGNORING SOFT POWER    … more effectively to explain our common interests.  



The collapse of U.S. soft power will shatter global cooperation – making nuclear proliferation, environmental destruction, failed states and diseases inevitable

Reiffel, 5 (Lex, Visiting Fellow at the Global Economy and Development Center of the Brookings Institution,  The Brookings Institution, Reaching Out: Americans Serving Overseas, 12-27-2005, www.brookings.edu/views/papers/20051207rieffel.pdf) 

Finally, the collapse of U.S. leadership will unleash conflicts – resulting great power wars

Thayer, 6 (Bradley A., Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, The National Interest, November -December, “In Defense of Primacy”, lexis) 

Contention 3 - Bioterrorism 

The threat of bioterrorism is real and growing

O’Toole 2007 (Tara, “Hearing on Bioterrorism Preparadness and the Role of DHS Chief Medical Officer,” testimony before Congress, Center for Biosecurity, March 29, http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/hearings/content/Hearings_2007/20070329-btprepanddhscmo.html) 

Bioterrorism is an Urgent and Growing … with the national security implications of this analysis. 



The Global Health Service will allow the CDC and NIH to maintain expertise in diseases that are potential bioterrorist agents

Smolinski et al. 03 – Director of the Global Health and Security Initiative at Nuclear Threat Initiative [Marks. Smolinski (Former Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics of Science and Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret A. Hamburg (Vice President for Biological Programs at Nuclear Threat Initiative), & Joshua Lederberg (Directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at The Rockefeller University) Editors, Board on Global Health at the institute of  the National Academics, Microbial threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, 3-18-2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10636.html] 

Improving the global capacity to …the microbial threats workforce). 



This expertise will lead to effective responses to both natural disease outbreaks and bioterrorist attacks

Smolinski et al. 03 – Director of the Global Health and Security Initiative at Nuclear Threat Initiative [Marks. Smolinski (Former Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics of Science and Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret A. Hamburg (Vice President for Biological Programs at Nuclear Threat Initiative), & Joshua Lederberg (Directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at The Rockefeller University) Editors, Board on Global Health at the institute of  the National Academics, Microbial threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, 3-18-2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10636.html] 

REBUILDING DOMESTIC PUBLIC HEALTH CAPACITY



The U.S. capacity to respond to …epidemiologic expertise and laboratory capability 

Response ability and situational awareness is the best defense against bioterrorist attacks

O’Toole 2007 (Tara, “Hearing on Bioterrorism Preparadness and the Role of DHS Chief Medical Officer,” testimony before Congress, Center for Biosecurity, March 29, http://www.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resources/hearings/content/Hearings_2007/20070329-btprepanddhscmo.html) 

The ease with which bioweapons programs can be … to constructively engage the cooperation and collaboration of citizens in epidemic response.

The impact is extinction – outweighs nuclear use

Ochs – MA in Natural Resource Management at Rutgers – 2002 (Richard, “Biological Weapons Must be Abolished Immediately,” 6-9-2002, http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html) 

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS MUST BE ABOLISHED IMMEDIATELY

Of all the weapons of mass destruction, the … If patriotism would extinguish humanity, then patriotism is the highest of all crimes. 

Add on 


Natural outbreaks will be perceived as terrorist attacks

Stern – 2003 – Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard

(Jessica Stern, International Security, “Dreaded Risks and the Control of Biological Weapons,” 27.3 (2002/03) 89-123, Project Muse) 

A particularly frightening aspect of … continue to increase the incidence of infectious diseases once thought to be under control. 

U.S. lashout will kill hundreds of millions

Easterbrook – Fellow at the Brookings Institute – 2001 (Greg, CNN, “America's New War: Nuclear Threats,” 11-1-2001, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/01/gal.00.html) 

EASTERBROOK: Well, what held … in addition to being in our interests. 





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