Should drug addicts be sterilised?
If women can’t be trusted to care for children, why should society allow them to have them?
Al Jazeera is becoming better and better.
David Frost interviews the founder of an American charity which pays drug
addicts to be sterilised and a British woman who help addicts reform. Barbara
Harris, of Project Prevention, tells harrowing stories of babies withdrawing
from drugs, and Niamh Eastwood of Release counters that payment exploits
vulnerable women. A compelling debate.
Michael Cook
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Michael Cook edits BioEdge, a bioethics newsletter, and MercatorNet, an on-line magazine whose focus is human dignity. He writes from Sydney, Australia.
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