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Even though, drug users are getting pregnant and kids are being disable mentally and physically because of mothers being on crack, ,heroin and other drug substance use ,I think its unfair for Barbara Harris to have an organization called project prevention to pay women 300 dollars who are addicted to drugs to get birth control , or get sterilized .However ,I Believe that giving money to them only will make them run to the drugs , so why would someone pay drug users to stop having kids ?,when the problem should be helping the addicts get clean to live a healthy lifestyle ,so they will be able to take care of their kids. Therefore, project prevention is not a satisfactory solution. ‘’For we all have sinned and fall short ‘’. (Romans 3:23). Moreover, …show more content…
Instead of them getting birth control and getting sterilized knowing that they are’’ too high’’ to know they are hurting their body because they only see it as getting money to get high than what the outcome will be to their body. On the other hand, Lynn M. Paltrow is an executive director of the national advocate for pregnant women, an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of pregnant and parenting women and their children. However, in her article and video she has women who have struggle with drug addiction speak about their opinions on project prevention program. In addition, the video the mothers feel that they are being stereotype as being a bad mother , are worthless ,and are unredeemable to society and the kids are damage and drain to

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