Worldwide survey data disproves your coercion argument – rigorous opinion surveys show that women in Sub-Saharan African women voluntarily choose contraceptives – coercion is prohibited by US law
Susan A. Cohen, policy development associate at the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1997 [http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib15.html]
Coercive family planning practices are expressly
Permute – do both – do all of the plan and all of the alternative that doesn’t include vote neg. Only a combination of positive and negative imagery is effective – positive images alone create inattention to sacrificial atrocity and violence, resulting in African exploitation
Gbemisola Olujobi, Pulitzer Fellow at USC Annenberg School for Communication, 2006
[“The Africa You Need to Know,” http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/pdfs/The_Africa_You_Need_To_Know.pdf]
Facts are sacred and the truth must be told. Despite generous
Reducing all issues to questions of representations ignores the real political and social issues on the ground that can be helped by the plan – there is more to the situation than just the discourse
Achille Mbembe, Executive Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, used to be Asst. Prof of History at Columbia University, 2001
[On the Postcolony, p. 5-6]
The first has to do with the extraordinary poverty
Exclusive focus on representations erodes meaningful reversal of the structures of exploitation – discursive focus must supplement, not replace, material discussion of reform
Giroux, Chair Professorship of Edcuation and Cultural Studies at Penn State, 2006
[Henry, “Dirty Democracy and State of Terrorism,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, 163-177]
Abstracted from the ideal of public commitment,
Plan is the best form of biopolitics—we’re the middle ground between the overpopulation caused by the alternative and the eugenic policies of authoritarian governments
Purdy 6 (Jedediah, New America Foundation, July 1, The New Biopolitics,
http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2006/the_new_biopolitics)
But, along with electronic commerce, transnational fanaticism,
New Trier (All Teams) – Affirmative – Kenyan Muslim Family Planning
The United States federal government should fund nongovernmental organizations associated with the Islamic faith located in the Republic of Kenya to assist in disease treatment and prevention
Contention One is Current Aid
Initially note, we’ve drastically increased our military aid to Kenya – it’s due to expand
Kevin J Kelley, The Nation (Nairobi), September 9, 2007
[“Steep Rise in U.S. Military Aid,” All Africa, http://allafrica.com/stories/200709090014.html]
The United States has increased its… according to the CDI analysis.
The USAID already requested an increase in funding for Kenya in the 2008 budget
USAID 2007 [fiscal year 2008 budget request] http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2008/fy2008cbj_highlights.pdf
The FY 2008 budget for Africa… of the FY 2008 budget.
Contention Two is Religion
The closure of Muslim NGOs has harmed relations between Christians and Muslims in Kenya
Hassan Mwakimako, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany, 2007
[“Christian-Muslim Relations in Kenya: A Catalogue of Events and Meanings,” journal Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Volume 18, Issue 2 April, pages 287 – 307, Taylor-Francis Informaworld]
During the early twentieth century… the propagation of Islam.
Religious disparities in Kenya result in anti-government resentment and conflict
David C. Sperling, Ph.D. Founder and Teacher, Strathmore University, Kenya, 2006
[“Islam and the Religious Dimension of Conflict in Kenya,” Dec 22, http://muslimsinkenya.wordpress.com/2006/12/]
Another basic premise of the paper… have been identified and addressed.
Ethnic conflict in Kenya results in civil war
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… affiliation rather than competence.
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… and in Rwanda and Burundi.
Dr. Jeffery Deutsch, Founder – Rabid Tiger Project, 2001
[Rabid Tiger Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 7, 11-18, http://www.rabidtigers.com/rtn/newsletterv2n9.html]
The Rabid Tiger Project believes that… some people love to go fishing.
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