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Stop Coercive Sterilization! Positive Prevention (also known as CRACK - Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity), a population control organization in Seattle, coerces chemically-addicted women who are poor or women of color to take Depo Provera, Norplant, or permanent tubal ligation by offering a $200 cash incentive. Chemically-addicted people who are most likely to accept birth control for $200 are people who, because of poverty, also experience disproportionate rates of rape, domestic violence, assault, HIV, mental illness, homelessness, instability, imprisonment, death row sentences, and post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of oppression. CARA's Black People's Project and The Ad Hoc Committee to Oppose Positive Prevention/CRACK in Seattle are organizing individuals and organizations that want to eliminate Positive Prevention/CRACK advertising from our neighborhoods. We are confident that activists in Seattle can greatly contribute to the nationwide effort of challenging Positive Prevention/CRACK and help redirect the energy spent on sterilizing women to building a community with comprehensive drug treatment programs and low-cost or free health care. |
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| Last Updated: June 3, 2002 © Communities Against Rape & Abuse |