Initially note, the gag rule has resulted in drastic cuts in public health assistance in Kenya. There is a lack of contraceptives available and has been an increase in unsafe and illegal abortions
Margie Peterson, The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania), May 3, 2007
[“Gag rule keeps birth control from women in need,” Lexis]
When you have seen the mangled
Specifically, the gag rule has devastated HIV/AIDS prevention in Kenya. Few clinics are open and little contraception and ARVs are available
Global Gag Rule Impact Project, a collaborative research effort led by Population Action International in partnership with Ipas and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 2006
[“Access Denied: The Impact of the Global Gag Rule in Kenya,” http://www.globalgagrule.org/pdfs/case_studies/GGRcase_kenya_2006.pdf]
By crippling the country’s primary
Future AIDS epidemics in Kenya will have devastating effects on the agriculture sector, harming food security and destroying the farming cycle, which is critical to the Kenyan economy
Robert K. Nyaga, Social Sector Division of the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2004
[“HIV/AIDS in Kenya: A Review of Research and Policy Issues,” KIPPRA Discussion Paper No. 38, June, http://www.kippra.org/Download/DPNO38.pdf]
Agriculture employs a large segment (80%)
Kenya economic growth is key to the region’s economy, solves terrorism, and proliferation
USAID, 2000
[“USAID/Kenya: Integrated Strategic Plan, 2001-2005,” http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDABU260.pdf]
Kenya is the most important country
This crushes the global economy
Donald Payne, congressman D-NJ, 2003
["Congress and Africa: Perspectives of Congressman Payne and CBC," 4-30, Lexis]
From the war on terrorism to the supply
Bearden
The lack of contraception resulting from the gag rule is causing a massive population explosion in Kenya
Jim Motavalli, Editor of E: The Environmental Magazine, 2006
[“Shaking the Baby Tree: If There's a "Depopulation Bomb, It Has a Very Long Fuse" The Environmental Magazine, Nov/Dec, Vol 17, Issue 6, pgs 26-32, Proquest]
Clearly, high birth rates contribute
The only thing that can prevent further population explosion is lowering the fertility rate
John Blacker, Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2007
[“Letter: Questions need to be raised about Kenya's population growth rate; Letters to the Editor,” The Independent (London), January 23, Lexis]
Sir: In your articles on the current drought
Conflicts over resources and land results in civil war and genocide
Bill Berkeley, Freelance writer in New York City who has been reporting in African on his Patterson fellowship, 1995
[“Kenya: Barely Escaping Rwanda,” The Alicia Patterson Foundation Reporter, Vol 17, Num 1, http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1701/Berkeley/Berkeley.html]
But this is none of those exhausted battlegrounds
Kenya stability is key to the stability of the region
Leonard H. Robinson Jr., President and CEO of the National Summit on Africa, based in Washington, D.C. He also is a former two-time deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs, 1999
[“America's chance in Africa,” Baltimore Sun, October 24, Lexis]
If Albright is not successful, Kenya's
Deutsch
Contention Three – Terrorism
Kenya is suspicious of the proposed AFRICOM – this is harming US relations with Kenya
East African, Africa News, August 14, 2007
[“U.S. Allays Fears Over New Military Body,” All Africa, Lexis]
Africom represents a potential threat to the
US-Kenya relations are critical to prevent Kenyan terrorism – spreading US influence in the country through development programs is the only way to solve
The Nation, Africa News, 2003
[“'Secrets' behind US, UK Anti-Terror War in Kenya,” All Africa, June 22, Lexis]
A detailed review of the reflections on Kenya is quite revealing
Kenya is a breeding grounds for terrorism because if its strategic importance, easy targets, and lack of security in the country
Hared H. Adan, Major in the Kenyan Army, 2005
[“Combating Transnational Terrorism in Kenya,” Thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=A436675&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf]
Kenya’s geography and geographic location contribute to
Kenya is key to global war on terror
Hared H. Adan, Major in the Kenyan Army, 2005
[“Combating Transnational Terrorism in Kenya,” Thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=A436675&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf]
Kenya also joined the US in the GWOT, playing a pivotal
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