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Peace Without Poison

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country into, but I hope that he will honor his father’s legacy and help me forge global consensusfor open, safe and legal population control so that Kenya can attain replacement level fertilitywithout damaging human health and trampling the people’s fundamental rights.Given Kenya’s low contraceptive prevalence rate, which has yet to reach 50%, the drop infertility from 8 to 3.6 children cannot possibly be explained by the judicious use ofcontraceptives.Since Kenya is far away from reaching replacement level fertility, prosperity has been denied itspeople. As the economic data shows, Kenya’s GDP per capita has stagnated at around $500 forthe past 40 years.Kenya has just entered stage three of the demographic transition.403 | P a g e

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