Surgical Strike Summary

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In the article “Surgical Strike” a woman by the name of Barbara Harris receives a call from a social worker and is asked to be a foster parent. She ends up becoming a foster parent to children who have a mother who was a crack cocaine addict. She sees the children suffer with problems that were caused because of their birth mothers addiction and does something about it. Barbara ends up starting CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity). Which is a nonprofit organization that offers $200 in cash to addicts who agree to be sterilized or undergo long term contraception. Some people feel like by doing that she is feeding the addiction of the addicts, but her main concern is the kids that get affected by the drugs. She gets the support of a few wealthy donors that think her organization is a smart idea. She also gets hate from some programs that don’t agree with what she is doing and don’t believe in her cause. In this article there are a few ethical dilemmas that are explained throughout the article. One being the CRACK nonprofit organization, and the fact that women that are addicted to drugs are having all these babies with horrible …show more content…

The basic goods that are associated with natural law theory are life, reproduction, educate one’s offspring’s, seek god, live in society, avoid offense and shun ignorance (Vaughn). Our instincts show us the basic goods so preventing reproduction is not part of the natural law (Vaughn). One of the basic goods are reproduction, so the natural law theory would be not for the CRASH program. The CRASH program is for giving contraceptives to women who are addicted to drugs. The natural law might see sterilization as being degrading to women by paying them not to be able to conceive. They can also take them not being able to conceive as a excuse to do more drugs and just get more

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