A controversial charity has paid a British man about $320 dollars to get a vasectomy. The man, called “John” is the first British participant in the program offered by Project Prevention.
The organization was founded by a North Carolina woman who was troubled by the damage inflicted on children from the effects of drug addiction. To date, Barbara Harris’s organization has paid more than 3,500 drug addicts in the United States to be sterilized. The sterilization scheme has created widespread criticism for Harris and her organization. Some addiction advocacy groups have accused Harris of taking advantage of vulnerable people struggling with a medical illness.
“It exploits very vulnerable people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol at probably the lowest point in their lives,” said Simon Antrobus, chief executive of Addaction, an addiction advocacy group in Britain.
”I think Barbara uses some very extreme examples to get her point across. It might work in America but Great Britain is a very different country,” said Maria Cripps, who runs a center for addicts in the East End of London.
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