Project Prevention
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Project Prevention (formerly known as Children Requiring a Caring Community or C.R.A.C.K.) is an organization which pays drug addicts and alcoholics $200 for volunteering to receive long-term birth control or sterilization.
Barbara Harris founded the organization after she and her husband adopted four children from a drug-addicted mother. After the experience of helping the children through withdrawal and other health problems, she attempted to have legislation passed in California which would have mandated long-term birth control for mothers who gave birth to drug-addicted babies. After this failed, she opted instead to start Project Prevention.
The organization has incited a large amount of controversy. Some would claim that it is a human right to have children that should not be restricted. Critics also make comparisons to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.
As of April 12, 2005, Project Prevention has paid and treated 1489 women and 27 men.
External link
- Project Prevention Home Page (http://projectprevention.org/)
- BBC Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3189763.stm)