Why Caring Communities Must Oppose C.R.A.C.K./Project Prevention: How C.R.A.C.K. Promotes Dangerous Propaganda and Undermines the Health and Well Being of Children and Families
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C.R.A.C.K./PROJECT PREVENTION: HOW C.R.A.C.K.
PROMOTES DANGEROUS PROPAGANDA AND
UNDERMINES THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
LYNN M. PALTROW*
INTRODUCTION
Many people have lauded C.R.A.C.K. (Children Requiring a Caring
Kommunity), also known as Project Prevention,' as a sensible and
socially responsible program.2 This program offers $200 for current
* Lynn M. Paltrow, J.D. is Executive Director of the National Advocates for
Pregnant Women, an organization dedicated to protecting the rights and interests of
pregnant and parenting women and their children. Information about NAPW can be
found at www.advocatesforpregnantwomen.org. Ms. Paltrow would like to thank:
New York University Law Students Julie D. Capehart, Elizabeth Frankel, Lynn Lu,
and Skyla Olds; Rutgers Newark Law Student Emily K. Berger; NAPW staff Wen-
Hua Yang, Acrea McIntosh, and Wyndi Marie Anderson; Jill C. Morrison, staff
attorney for the National Women's Law Center; Sheigla Murphy, Director of the
Center Substance Abuse Studies, Institute for Scientific Analysis; Theryn
Kigvamasud'Vashti, Community Organizer for the Communities Against Rape and
Abuse; Jennifer Johnson-Spence, Librarian at the Drug Policy Alliance; and Dean
Richard Rakos, College of Arts and Sciences, Cleveland State University for their
assistance and many contributions to this article.
I. At some point in its organizational development, the founders of C.R.A.C.K
began referring to it as Project Prevention. Because the organization continued to
use the name C.R.A.C.K. in public documents and statements at the time this article
was written, this article will refer to the organization as C.R.A.C.K.
2. See e.g., George Will, A Furor Over Sparing Babies From Chemical Assault,
ORLANDO SENTINEL, Nov. 12, 1999, at A 17 (noting that [p]eople concerned about the
right of addicted women to inflict their addictions on their babies ignore the baby's
right not to have its life blighted by a chemical assault in the womb.); Kathleen
Parker, Crazy Idea Saves Babies of Crack Addicts, ORLANDO SENTINEL, Jan. 6, 1999,
at E1; Clarence Page, Being Paid to Be Sterile Might Beat Alternatives, SOUTH COAST
TODAY, Aug. 16, 1999, at B4.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/jls5&div=7&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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