Crack Baby

A friend of mine sent me a link to a local news report when the Project Prevention van visited her area. I had initially titled this piece “An Uncomfortable Subject” because to be honest I’ve been sitting on this story for over a week now trying to figure out an official TDA stance on the issue and that was the best I could come up with… it’s uncomfortable.

In a nutshell, Project Prevention offers a cash reward to drug addicts and prostitutes if they will go on long term birth control like an IUD or be sterilized. The goal of course is avoid pregnant substance abusers and children born that have to be withdrawn from drugs.

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”Rachel Barfoot, 31, who had been charged before with beating her niece, told her probation officer that she was pregnant. When she tested positive for cocaine, she was arrested.”

Yeah I know, the title is a little corny but at least it made you look. My little nook of the world has been featured by the news in less than a positive light lately with just last week the story of a drunken ninja and the handless keg party crasher and now this week a story published about pregnant drug abusers in south Alabama.

I am not sure which riles me up more, the fact that children are being subjected to drug use and affected by addiction before they are even born, or the polarized responses of those that have reacted to this story.

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