Peace Without Poison

The Marshal Islands interfered with population growth from 1991 to 1996, thus during the tailend of Amata Kabua’s presidency (1979-1996), abandoned covert depopulation measures untilcirca 2009, thus during Imata Kabua’s (1996-2000), Kesai Note’s (2000-2008), and LitokwaTomeing (2008-2009) presidencies, and has since reengaged them under presidents JurelangZedkaia’s (2009-2012) and Christopher Loeak, who is the current president since January 2012.Since the contraceptive prevalence rate has never exceeded 45% and abortion is illegal andperformed only to save the life of a woman, neither contraceptives nor abortions can account forthe drop in fertility from 6 to 3.2 children per woman.The Marshal Islands is in stage two of the demographic transition.507 | P a g e