Glenbrook North Aff

Round # 3

vs Team: Damien

Judge: Thad Blank



Plan Text

The United States Federal Government should provide support to family planning programs south of the Sahara in Africa, regardless of their promotion of abortion.


1ac w/ cites


Leadership
The gag rule has caused massive waves of clinic closures – this undermines health diplomacy and destroys maternal health.
Alison Motluk, 2k4 “a healthy strategy for whom exactly?”

! = 700 deaths a day
Sai 2k4

Ideological restrictions placed by the gag rule are detrimental to U.S. global health leadership – destroys US global health coordination that’s key to prvent the spread of rapidly emerging drug-resistant diseases.
Alan Ingram, 2k5, http://ire.sagepub.com “Global Leadership and Global Health”

These diseases will cause extinction.
William Fox, 98, “Phantom Warriers” Parameteres, Winter, www.carlisle.army.mil

Risk of major pandemic now
Reuters, 8-23-07,

Population

Global population trends skyrocketing, making SSA the biggest source of global population pressure and overwhelms fertility declines everywhere.
PAI< 2k7
“demographic trends are diverse…under age 20.”

Environment –
Rapid population growth destroys the bio. And good descurity, makes other efforts at development impossible.
Lelo 200

Food insecurity is the root cause of African and global instability –
Robert Trudell, 2k5, Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 277 “food security deserves its place…amount of food”

Loss of biodiversity à Extinction.
Straits Times, Nirmal Ghosh, 11-16-2k7

Terrorism

Status quo policies fail without addressing the root in Afr.
Princeton Lyman and Stephen Morrison, “The Terrorist Threat in Africa” Foreign Affairs, Jan-Fab 04, Lexis

Terrorist Recruitment in SSA poses a unique threat to global security, only US led family planning efforts solve.
Richard Cincotta, 2005, sWorld Watch Institute, State of the World 2005
“From continent and across the race and religion…UN Population Fund.”

We control uniqueness, absent family planning, HOA will collapse under population growth à conflict and terror
The Economist, “The Path to Ruin – The Horn of Africa” August 12, 2006, lexis

Family planning can eliminate terror quickly, comparatively more effective than any other terror prevention measures.
Bruce Sudquist, 8-07, home.alltel.net
“Supporting family planning…with going to war.”

Africa’s the primary source of international terrorism --- only effective family planning can solve a long-term spillover.
Robert Rotberg, “Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa”, 2005, 93-94
“Ethiopia has experienced…neighboring states.”

Terrorism in the HOA will serve as a safe haven for int’l terrorists and spark major regional war.
Peter Brookes, “Horn Hotbed” armed forces journal, may 2k7

War and Instability goes nuclear – Deutsch

Terrorists in Africa can and will get nukes to use against the US – Thomas Dempsey, April 2k6, “Counterterrorism in African Failed States: Challenges and Potential Solutions”

A Nuclear terror attack invites Russian and Chinese aggression and causes massive US retaliation
Jerome Corsi, Atomic Iran, pg. 176-8


Increasing US family planning is the only way to sustain global involvement. Wendy Turnbyll, policy analyst, 1-96,