Cuba has an outstanding healthcare system – the only obstacle to effective care is a lack of equipment & supplies that are unavailable due to the embargo.
Randall, MD in internal medicine from Indiana University, 2000
No Offense – the medical embargo doesn’t hurt Castro, it only hurts innocent Cuban citizens. We have a moral imperative to stop the intentional destruction of Cuba’s public health system.
Eisenberg, former Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine and Psychology at the Harvard Medical School, 1997
(Leon, “The sleep of reason produces monsters – human costs of economic sanctions,” The New England Journal of Medicine, 336:17, pgs. 1248-1250, ProQuest)
And, this causes mass death to the Cuban people
Coll 07 Professor of Law and President, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul College of Law [Alberto R. Coll, Harming Human Rights in the Name of Promoting Them: The Case of the Cuban Embargo, UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Fall, 2007, 12 UCLA J. Int'l L. & For. Aff. 199]
So Sadiya and I advocate that The United States Federal Government should lift restrictions on Medical and Medicine, for the Health care sector in Cuba
Current programs and other country fail only plan solves
MOAKLEY98 (JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEY is A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS MAY 7, 1998 “U.S. ECONOMIC AND TRADE POLICY TOWARD CUBA: HEARING before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRADE of the COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION” http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-105hhrg55762/html/CHRG-105hhrg55762.htm)
Contention 2 framing
Citizens have a prima facie obligation to be informed about mass atrocities – it’s key to prevent them
Filice, 90 – Professor And Chair Of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Geneseo, PhD from the University of Illinois (Carlo “On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 12 No. 3, pg. 397-414, August 1990, http://www.jstor.org/stable/762531)
Focus on magnitude masks everyday instances of violence – we have a moral obligation to place a disproportionately high value on structural violence.
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois, Professors of Anthropology @ Berkeley & UPenn, 2004 (Nancy and Philippe, Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)
The plan comes first – we can’t respect species’ existence without respecting Human Rights Annas et al 02Edward R. Utley Prof. and Chair Health Law @ Boston U. School of Public Health and Prof. SocioMedical Sciences and Community Science @ Boston U. School of Medicine and Prof. Law @ Boston U. School of Law [George, Lori Andrews, (Distinguished Prof. Law @ Chicago-Kent College of Law and Dir. Institute for Science, Law, and Technology @ Illinois Institute Tech), and Rosario M. Isasa, (Health Law and Biotethics Fellow @ Health Law Dept. of Boston U. School of Public Health), American Journal of Law & Medicine, “THE GENETICS REVOLUTION: CONFLICTS, CHALLENGES AND CONUNDRA: ARTICLE: Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations”, 28 Am. J. L. and Med. 151, L/N]
Don’t accept Utilitarianism, it destroys human value – it treats people as a means to an end
Grisez and Shaw, 94
(professor of Christian ethics @ Mount Saint Mary’s College, Germain Gabriel and Russell, Beyond the New Morality: The Responsibilities of Freedom p 28)
And, our scenario evaluations are crucial for responsible politics. Pure critique is insufficient – we need to evaluate “as if” outcomes like the plan to realize ethical counter-practices
Michael Williams, 2005[Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales. The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations, p. 165-7]
Contention 3 Defense
No impact to nuclear terrorism – it doesn’t escalate to extinction.
Nuclear war won’t escalate; the US could disarm any nuclear opponent before they could retaliate Liber, 2006 (Keir Liber, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and Press Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2006, International Security, The End of Mad The Nuclear dimension of US Primacyhttp://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isec.2006.30.4.7)
Risk of backlash prevents accidental war
Waltz 95 (Kenneth, Prof of Poli Sci @ Berkely, Ph.D in Poli Sci from Columbia U, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A debate, pp. 111)
Fear of accidents prevents war Waltz 95 (Kenneth, Prof of Poli Sci @ Berkely, Ph.D in Poli Sci from Columbia U, International Affairs, August 1995, http://www.ciaonet.org/wps/wak01/)
Accidents wont escalate – fear, risk calculation, and intuitional mechanisms
Wallace, Crissey and Sennott 86 (Michael D., Brian L., and Linn I., Michael – prof of Poli Sci @ Columbia U, Brian – Prof of Computing Sci @ Linfield College, and Linn – Prof of Mathematics @ ISU, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 23 no. 1, 1986, JStor)
Contention 1 Health care
Because of the embargo the flow of medical goods are restricted this creates financial strains that threatens to collapse the Cuban healthcare system.Xinhua News, 2012
(“Cuban healthcare weakended by U.S. embargo,” 11/28, Online: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2012-11/28/c_132004531.htm)
Cuba has an outstanding healthcare system – the only obstacle to effective care is a lack of equipment & supplies that are unavailable due to the embargo.
Randall, MD in internal medicine from Indiana University, 2000
(Judith, “Does the US Embargo Affect Cuban Healthcare?,” Journal of the National Cancer Institute 92:12, Online: http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/12/963.full)
No Offense – the medical embargo doesn’t hurt Castro, it only hurts innocent Cuban citizens. We have a moral imperative to stop the intentional destruction of Cuba’s public health system.
Eisenberg, former Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine and Psychology at the Harvard Medical School, 1997
(Leon, “The sleep of reason produces monsters – human costs of economic sanctions,” The New England Journal of Medicine, 336:17, pgs. 1248-1250, ProQuest)
And, this causes mass death to the Cuban people
Coll 07 Professor of Law and President, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul College of Law [Alberto R. Coll, Harming Human Rights in the Name of Promoting Them: The Case of the Cuban Embargo, UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Fall, 2007, 12 UCLA J. Int'l L. & For. Aff. 199]
This is genocide with intent to destroy
Cabrera13 (Ángel Guerra Cabrera a Cuban journalist, 24 October 2013 a correspondent for La Jornada . “An Act of Genocide for which Obama Must Answer”http://watchingamerica.com/News/224816/an-act-of-genocide-which-obama-must-answer-for/)
So Sadiya and I advocate that The United States Federal Government should lift restrictions on Medical and Medicine, for the Health care sector in Cuba
Current programs and other country fail only plan solves
MOAKLEY 98 (JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEY is A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS MAY 7, 1998 “U.S. ECONOMIC AND TRADE POLICY TOWARD CUBA: HEARING before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRADE of the COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION” http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-105hhrg55762/html/CHRG-105hhrg55762.htm)
Contention 2 framing
Citizens have a prima facie obligation to be informed about mass atrocities – it’s key to prevent them
Filice, 90 – Professor And Chair Of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Geneseo, PhD from the University of Illinois (Carlo “On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities,” Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 12 No. 3, pg. 397-414, August 1990, http://www.jstor.org/stable/762531)
Focus on magnitude masks everyday instances of violence – we have a moral obligation to place a disproportionately high value on structural violence.
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois, Professors of Anthropology @ Berkeley & UPenn, 2004
(Nancy and Philippe, Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)
The plan comes first – we can’t respect species’ existence without respecting Human Rights
Annas et al 02 Edward R. Utley Prof. and Chair Health Law @ Boston U. School of Public Health and Prof. SocioMedical Sciences and Community Science @ Boston U. School of Medicine and Prof. Law @ Boston U. School of Law [George, Lori Andrews, (Distinguished Prof. Law @ Chicago-Kent College of Law and Dir. Institute for Science, Law, and Technology @ Illinois Institute Tech), and Rosario M. Isasa, (Health Law and Biotethics Fellow @ Health Law Dept. of Boston U. School of Public Health), American Journal of Law & Medicine, “THE GENETICS REVOLUTION: CONFLICTS, CHALLENGES AND CONUNDRA: ARTICLE: Protecting the Endangered Human: Toward an International Treaty Prohibiting Cloning and Inheritable Alterations”, 28 Am. J. L. and Med. 151, L/N]
Don’t accept Utilitarianism, it destroys human value – it treats people as a means to an end
Grisez and Shaw, 94
(professor of Christian ethics @ Mount Saint Mary’s College, Germain Gabriel and Russell, Beyond the New Morality: The Responsibilities of Freedom p 28)
And, our scenario evaluations are crucial for responsible politics. Pure critique is insufficient – we need to evaluate “as if” outcomes like the plan to realize ethical counter-practices
Michael Williams, 2005 [Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales. The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations, p. 165-7]Contention 3 Defense
No impact to nuclear terrorism – it doesn’t escalate to extinction.
Jenkins, 13– editor of Wall Street Journal Editorial Board (Holman, “Is Blackmail, Whoever Is Behind It”, APR January, 19, 2013 http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-216605/)
Nuclear war won’t escalate; the US could disarm any nuclear opponent before they could retaliate Liber, 2006 (Keir Liber, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and Press Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2006, International Security, The End of Mad The Nuclear dimension of US Primacy http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isec.2006.30.4.7)
Risk of backlash prevents accidental war
Waltz 95 (Kenneth, Prof of Poli Sci @ Berkely, Ph.D in Poli Sci from Columbia U, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A debate, pp. 111)
Fear of accidents prevents war
Waltz 95 (Kenneth, Prof of Poli Sci @ Berkely, Ph.D in Poli Sci from Columbia U, International Affairs, August 1995, http://www.ciaonet.org/wps/wak01/)
Accidents wont escalate – fear, risk calculation, and intuitional mechanisms
Wallace, Crissey and Sennott 86 (Michael D., Brian L., and Linn I., Michael – prof of Poli Sci @ Columbia U, Brian – Prof of Computing Sci @ Linfield College, and Linn – Prof of Mathematics @ ISU, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 23 no. 1, 1986, JStor)Biodiversity not key to anything
Warrick 97 (Joby, Washington Post, Aug 29, Lexis)