Project Prevention

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In Project Prevention (formerly CRACK, short for Children Requiring a Caring Community ) is a controversial program to prevent the birth of drug and alcohol-damaged children. The project runs in all states of the USA . Drug and alcohol addicts women and men are offered money for having themselves sterilized or for choosing another form of long-term contraception such as three-month injections. By October 2010, according to Project Prevention, 3,600 people had been paid.

history

The project was started by Barbara Harris. Harris and her husband fostered an 8-month-old girl in 1990. They learned that this was the fifth child of a woman addicted to drugs. Four months later, they found out that she was pregnant again and adopted this child as well. This happened twice more in total.

Harris then tried to influence California legislation. She wanted a law that would force drug addict women to use contraception. However, it was unsuccessful. Then Harris decided to pay drug addict women to use birth control.

criticism

Harris was accused of eugenic motives and racism . Critics accused her of not helping women give up their drug addiction. Lynn Paltrow, executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, accused Harris of likely thinking that drug addicts are not worth procreating. Dr. Van Dunn of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation criticized the project. "Offering a poor woman money to give up her reproductive rights is unethical," said Vann Dunn. Harris has denied the allegations.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Project Prevention website: Statistics , last accessed on November 6, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c Vittal Katikireddi: CRACK for birth control  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , StudentBMJ Vol. 12, March 2004, downloaded January 17, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / student.bmj.com  
  3. ↑ Sterilization Program Revisits Eugenics Issue: Poor women targeted for sterilization campaign ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Downloaded January 17th, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cwfa.org

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