Barbara Harris is a good woman. She and her husband John adopted four children from the same mother, a woman who was addicted to crack and who gave birth to addicted children. That’s what’s spurred her on to start the charity Project Prevention, which pays drug addicts to get sterilized to prevent this kind of situation from occurring. The project has sterilized 3500 people in the United States, but the program has run into controversy in Great Britain, where Project Prevention paid a drug addict 200 pounds to get a vasectomy.
Ms. Harris says her time raising drug-addicted babies is what spurred her to start Project Prevention. “I got very angry about the damage that these drugs do to these children,’ she told BBC London’s Inside Out program. “It was unbelievable. Isaiah could not sleep, he couldn’t eat, his eyes were big, noise bothered him, light bothered him. It broke my heart. I was angry at the mum, And then my anger turned a little bit to where why did we allow her to do that? I’ve been called everything. I’ve been spat on. Typically I just say to my critics: ‘If you believe these women should continue to take drugs and have children, then step up in line and adopt their babies.’ It’s that simple.”
Of course, the most valid criticism of the program is that the money went straight into the guy’s veins after the legal high of the vasectomy painkillers wears off, but really. That’s not always a bad thing. If we can prevent him from going out and having a bunch of kids, then it’s a net gain for society.
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