Project Prevention (formerly Children in Need for Caring Communities or CRACK ) is an American nonprofit organization that pays cash addicts to volunteer for the long term long term birth control, including sterilization. Originally based in California and now based in North Carolina, the organization began operations in the UK in 2010. The organization offers US $ 300 (£ 200 in UK) for each participant. Barbara Harris founded the organization in 1997 after she and her husband adopted the fifth, six, seven, and eight children of drug-addicted mothers. Until October 7, 2011 the organization has paid 3,848 clients.
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History
Barbara Harris founded the organization in Anaheim, California in 1997 as a Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity (CRACK) after she and her husband adopted one-by-one as each of four children born from an addicted drug mother. Each of the four adopted children is separated within the age of just one year. With experience helping children through withdrawal and other health problems, she tries to get legislation passed in California that will be mandated by long-term birth control for mothers who deliver babies who have been exposed to cocaine as a fetus. After this failed, he started what is now called Project Prevention.
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Activity
Prevention Project says their primary goal is to promote awareness of the dangers of drug use during pregnancy. They are better known, however, to pay for drug addicts in cash to volunteer for long-term birth control, including sterilization. This organization offers US $ 300 (£ 200 in UK) for each participant. The New York Times reported that the organization initially offered more money to women who chose tubal ligations and men who chose vasectomies than those who chose long-term contraceptives such as intrauterine contraceptives, but critics forced them to adopt a flat rate. To receive money, clients must show evidence that they have been arrested for drug-related offenses, or provide a doctor's certificate that says they are using drugs, and further evidence is needed to confirm that birth control procedures have occurred. The organization stores its activity statistics through a survey form filled with all participants, before any procedure is completed. In May 2014 based on a survey form of 4,913 clients already paid: 2,876 (58.5%) were Caucasian; 1,020 (20.8%) African Americans; 569 (11.6%) Hispanic; 448 (9.1%) others.
Criticism and response
The organization has used slogans such as "Do not let pregnancy get in the way of your crack habit" and "She has Daddy's eyes and her mother's heroin addiction". In an interview, Harris said, "We do not allow dogs to breed, we destroy them We dry them We try to prevent them from having unwanted puppies, but these women literally have children who have children "and that" we are campaigning for a neutral dog and we allow women to have 10 or 12 children they can not handle. "On the television news program 60 Minutes II Harris was asked about these comments and said "Well, you know my son who goes to Stanford says 'mother, please never say that again,' but it is the truth, they not only have one and two babies, they have children. "Recently, Harris has offered a softer response to criticism:" I think it depends on where your heart is. Some people are so attracted to women and their right to become pregnant so they seem to forget about the rights of the children. They act. like children this does not matter. People need to realize these women do not want to have babies taken from them. Nothing positive comes to a woman who has eight children taken from her. "
Opponents of organizations often argue that they should focus on addiction treatment or lobby for government health care. Organizations responded by saying they did not have the resources to solve the "national problem of poverty, housing, nutrition, education and rehabilitation services.Our resources are spent on preventing problems of $ 300 rather than paying millions after going on the expense of caring for potential children damaged. "Weaning a baby who is addicted to opioid drugs will cost about $ 500,000.
United Kingdom
Prevention Project began operations in the UK in 2010. In May 2010 a woman, not an addict, left a Glasgow clinic in what she described as "Possilpark area - this is a well-known area for medicine" accompanied by her ninth. a one-year-old boy when he was approached by three women who said they were from the organization and who offered him Ã, Â £ 200 if he agreed to be sterilized. The woman says the same group has approached another woman, and she then tells the Strathclyde police, who advises anyone approaching in the same way to contact them. The first British client was "John", a drug user since the age of 12, who received money to undergo a vasectomy, saying he should not be a father.
The organization has been criticized in the UK. Addaction, an addiction charity, says his practice is "morally reprehensible and irrelevant". Martin Barnes, CEO of DrugScope, says the organization's activities are exploitative, ethically dubious, and morally questionable. Harris admits his method amounts to bribes, but says it is the only way to stop babies who are physically and mentally damaged by drugs during pregnancy. The British Medical Association (BMA) says it has no view of the organization:
As with all requests for care, doctors must be confident that the individual has the capacity to make specific decisions at the time the decision is required. The BMA ethics committee also believes that physicians should inform patients about the benefits of reversible contraception so that patients have more reproductive options in the future.
On October 18, 2010 the BBC broadcast a program, Sterilizing The Addicts , about similar organizations, Addicts: No Children Allowed, , broadcast in Scotland by BBC Scotland.
ireland
Harris said in 2010 that Project Prevention might extend their activities to Ireland. In response Fiona Weldon, clinical director of the Dublin addiction treatment facility, Rutland Center, said it was "absolutely horrendous", and that the organization was misguided and could allow itself to be open to litigation in the future. Tony Geoghegan, CEO of drug addiction and homeless charity, Merchants Quay Ireland, says it is inappropriate to sterilize addicts.
See also
- Eugenika
- Moral hazard
References
Source
- Paltrow, Lynn M. (Winter 2003). "" Why Caring Communities Must Oppose C.R.A.C.K./Project Prevention: How to C.R.A.C.K. Promoting Hazardous Propaganda and Destroying the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Families "". Ã, (505Ã, KB) . Community Law Journal (Wayne State University) 5 (11): 11-117.
Further reading
External links
- Project Prevention
- "C.R.A.C.K.".
- "IUD to Prevent HIV in Kenya?". The Nation.
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