National Advocates for Pregnant Women Evaluation of Project Prevention

While some people laud this program, others have also challenged it as a
violation of informed consent, exploitative, coercive, racist and a form of
eugenic population control. A few have addressed the question of whether the
program creates a valid contract under standard contract law principles. Still
others have argued that at its core, this program invites people to sell their
reproductive capacity, and that like the sale of organs, sex, and children,
selling the ability to reproduce should be outlawed as a matter of public
policy.

NAPW’s response to Project Prevention focuses more broadly on the question of
whether or not people concerned with the problems Project Prevention purports
to address –including drug use, pregnancy, child welfare, and public health –
should support it. NAPW’s examination of what Project Prevention says and what
it does, the data it relies on, the rhetoric it uses, and the influence it is
having, makes clear that, far from providing a useful response to problems
associated with drug use and pregnancy, Project Prevention instead acts as a
dangerous vector for medical misinformation and political propaganda that has
significant implications for the rights of all Americans.

NAPW believes that Project Prevention promotes a vision of pregnant women with
health problems as “child abusers,” portrays healthy children as
damaged, and dangerously fosters stereotypes, prejudice, and medical
misinformation. In this video a group of mothers and children respond to some
of the issues raised by Project Prevention. As this video reveals and as this
article explains (http://advocatesforpregnantwomen.org/issues/crack/why_caring_communities_must_o�ppose_crack.php),
Project Prevention undermines, rather than promotes, the welfare of children
and caring communities.