May
21
  10:23:42 PM

Should drug addicts be sterilised?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.



 

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