Fullerton SS (Parker Schill and Joel Su)

Bahrain Medical Neutrality 1AC

Contention 1: Long Live the King

Reforms aren’t coming in Bahrain. The National Dialogue was a rigged game

Dr. Diwan, 11 (Kristin, Assistant Professor of Comparative and Regional Studies at the American University School of International Service, CNN, Bahrain's deceptive national dialogue, July 1, http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/01/bahrains-deceptive-national-dialogue/)

On Saturday Bahrain ...  to achieve this.

Contention 2: A Place Where Parents Don’t Want their Kids to Become Doctors

1. The Bahraini government is systematically targeting medical professionals

SOLLOM, 2011 (Richard, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights, May 13, http://tlhrc.house.gov/docs/transcripts/2011-05-13_Bahrain/Transcript.pdf)

Our investigation produced ...  them targets themselves.

2. Bahraini security forces are attacking medical facilities

Physicians for Human Rights, 2011 (an independent, non-profit organization that uses medical and scientific expertise to investigate human rights violations and advocate for justice, accountability, and the health and dignity of all people, “Do No Harm: A Call for Bahrain to End Systematic Attacks on Doctors and Patients”, April, https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_Reports/bahrain-do-no-harm-2011.pdf)

Bahraini authorities’ militarization ... work in safety.”

3. Security forces have people and medical professionals afraid of the hospitals or seeking medical treatment.

Physicians for Human Rights, 2011 (an independent, non-profit organization that uses medical and scientific expertise to investigate human rights violations and advocate for justice, accountability, and the health and dignity of all people, “Do No Harm: A Call for Bahrain to End Systematic Attacks on Doctors and Patients”, April, https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_Reports/bahrain-do-no-harm-2011.pdf)

Government in effect set up an efficient dragnet for all who participated in the various protests and demonstrations over the past two months. Individuals had to give their names and identity cards to authorities. Anyone with a Shi’a name or from a Shi’a neighborhood was suspect and risked immediate detention, interrogation, and torture. As these roadblocks targeted the Shi’a majority, there has been a deleterious impact on health and healthcare delivery for this population. Not only have the sick and wounded avoided going to medical centers for treatment, but so have the medical professionals avoided going to work. PHR investigators visited two of the 23 medical centers outside the capital in Bahrain (locations withheld due to possible repercussions to staff). At one clinic, administrative staff led the PHR team through a private back entrance to ensure no one saw them speak with the chief medical officer there. Standing in an empty X-ray room, this primary care physician reported widespread fear among her staff of 19 healthcare providers who used to see a total of 200 patients per day. Most staff fear coming to work for two reasons. First, staff who drive to work must pass one or more police roadblocks. As most staff are Shi’a, they fear being arrested because they are physicians and nurses, a population that the security forces are targeting. Second, these same security forces make routine stops at the medical centers to search for wounded protesters and inspect medical records. Health professionals whom Physicians for Human Rights interviewed fear going to work because many have witnessed the brutality of these armed government forces against their patients and medical colleagues. Consequently, medical center administrators reduced the hours that these public health centers are open to the public since physicians and nurses were afraid to go to work fearing possible abduction. Moreover, police road blocks throughout the city impeded access to getting to work, and at these road blocks, health professionals were being targeted by the police.

4. This is an egregious violation of medical neutrality.

SOLLOM, 2011 (RICHARD, Democracy Now, May 5, “Physicians Urge Obama Admin to Pressure Mideast Ally Bahrain to End Repression of Doctors, Patients”, http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/5/physicians_urge_obama_admin_to_pressure)

Well, the Bahrain ...  government of Bahrain.

5. Medical neutrality is a vital human right concern 

Devine, Hansen, & Wilde, 1999 (Carol, Carol Rae, & Ralph, Human Rights: The Essential Reference, p. 261-262)

Medical neutrality is ... of their duties."  

Contention 3: Human Rights Impacts

A. A Global Commitment

1. Without US leadership, there will be no global commitment to human rights

Nossel, chief of operations for Human Rights Watch, 2008 (Suzanne, Dissent, “A Human Rights Agenda for the New Administration”, Fall, http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1300)

But if the ...progress is unlikely.

2. We must preserve human rights to protect the dignity of every human being.

Darrell J Fasching, THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE OF AUSCHWITZ AND HIROSHIMA: APOCALYPSE OR UTOPIA?, 1993

As a universal r...forces of dehumanization.

3. Dignity is inalienable. Lack of human rights is responsible for all violence and coercion. This is a root cause of violence claim. 

Danrell J Fasching and Dell Dechant, Comparative Religion Ethics: A Narrative Approach, 2001

The origins of ... can successfully transgress.

4. Human rights trump all other claims

Felice 1996 (William, Assistant Professor of International relations at Eckerd College, Taking Suffering Seriously, p, 17)

A right can ...  “trump” other claims (Dworkin 1977, 364).

B. Don't Evaluate Consequentialist Disads

1. The nonconsequential value of human life is what makes it worth protecting. The value of our humanness must be a pre-requisite to extinction scenarios because it’s what gives meaning to extinction.

Kamm  92 [ FM Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Kennedy School Non-consequentialism, the person as an end-in-itself, and the significance of status.”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, “ p. 390 JSTOR]

If we are i.... inviolability of persons.

2. Medical Neutrality is blatant dehumanization –Palestine suicide bombings prove.

Lancet 2 [Failure to address the health toll of the Middle East crisis. Lancet; 4/13/2002, Vol. 359 Issue 9314, p1261, 1p, ISSN: 00995355, Accession Number: 6479861, Database:  Academic Search Premier,  (http://web.ebscohost.com.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/ehost/detail?sid=3e319937-aec8-4d74-aa00-eb2da350ab99%40sessionmgr15&vid=1&hid=13&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=647986)//js-tuffy]

"We are witnessing ...vehicles and offices.

3. DEHUMANIZATION IS NUCLEAR WAR, ENVIRONMENTAL APOCALYPSE AND INTERNATIONAL GENOCIDE. THERE IS NO WORSE WEAPON AGAINST HUMANITY

David Berube, 1997, Ph.D., Professor of Communication Studies at the University of South Carolina,

(“Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side," NanoTechnology Magazine, 3:5,
June-July, http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/berube/prolong.htm)

Assuming we are ...most powerful weapon.  

C. Do not evaluate kritiks that cannot account for human rights

1. The ethics framework must come first.  The basis for obligation to the other shouldn’t come from knowledge, even knowledge of the instrumental consequences of one’s actions.  Knowledge as the foundation of our relation to others will inevitably obliterate the other by reducing it to an agent of sameness

Gottlieb ’94 [9 Prof humanities @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute); 1994; “Ethics and trauma”; http://www.crosscurrents.org/feministecology.htm]

Levinas seeks to ... agent of sameness.

2. Even if the law is not perfect and culture values matter, rights still protect us from oppression.

Altman, 90 (Andrew, (Professor of Philosophy; Georgia State University) Critical Legal Studies:  A Liberal Critique, page 8)

There are undoubtedly ... worthy of allegiance.

3. Even if the kritik alternatives were enacted, people would need a way to fight intrusions from the state— rights are useful even in the world of the alternative.

Forbath, (Law Professor, UCLA) 92 ( William E. Forbath, Professor of Law, UCLA, “BOOK REVIEW: Taking Lefts Seriously, The Politics of Law: A  Progressive Critique,” 92 Yale L.J. 1041, May, 1983, Lexis).  

If Freeman leaves ... others often suggest.

The Plan:

The United States Federal Government should substantially increase democracy assistance for Bahrain by enacting the recommendations of the Physicians for Human Rights, as per the Sollom evidence.

Contention 4: Solvency

1. The plan confronts Bahrain and places the US in an international leadership position on medical neutrality

SOLLOM, Deputy Director of the Physicians for Human Rights, 2011 (Richard, May 13, http://tlhrc.house.gov/docs/transcripts/2011-05-13_Bahrain/Transcript.pdf)

In conclusion, I .... of medical neutrality.

2. Bahrain has an obligation to uphold medical neutrality as a human right

Physicians for Human Rights, 2011 (an independent, non-profit organization that uses medical and scientific expertise to investigate human rights violations and advocate for justice, accountability, and the health and dignity of all people, “Do No Harm: A Call for Bahrain to End Systematic Attacks on Doctors and Patients”, April, https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_Reports/bahrain-do-no-harm-2011.pdf)

Doctors have an ...medical neutrality stand.

3. The US should speak out against abuses in Bahrain to end US complicity with rights violations

McGovern, 2011 (JAMES P., REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, May 13, http://tlhrc.house.gov/docs/transcripts/2011-05-13_Bahrain/Transcript.pdf)

Let me end .... dimensions in Bahrain.

Contention 5: Response-able Framework

1. Debate should prioritize ethics. This is the only ethical framework for understanding politics.

Larson 2007 (Charles, Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility, 11th edition, p. 30)

"A society without ...apprehension, and uncer­tainty" (p. 95).

2. Counter frameworks should be in the 1NC.

A. 1NC framework arguments are better for education because the debate is developed which encourages clash and comparisons that cannot happen in the 1AR and gives the 2NR a major advantage.

B. Framework in the block makes the 2AC moot by shifting the entire focus of the debate. Waiting till the block sandbags a central argument in the debate. Block framework is a voting issue for reasons of competitive equity.

3. We must work within systems of government. We must access apparatuses of decision making and power to fight organizations and institutions causing the social disgraces of our world

Grossberg, 1992 (Lawrence, “We Gotta Get Outta This Place: popular conservatism and postmodern culture”. pg 390-391)

But this would .... to fight them.