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==Criticism and response==
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The organization has used slogans such as "Don't let pregnancy get in the way of your crack habit" and "She has her Daddy's eyes and her Mommy's heroin addiction".<ref name="sob">Swaine, Jon. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101021072645/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8071664/Drug-addict-sterilised-for-cash-but-can-Barbara-Harris-save-our-babies.html "Drug addict sterilised for cash - but can Barbara Harris save our babies?"]. ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. 19 October 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2011.</ref> In interviews Harris said "We don't allow dogs to breed. We spay them. We neuter them. We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children",<ref>[http://cwpe.org/node/56 "CRACK Uses Unethical Tactics to Stop Women with Substance Abuse Problems"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100403062033/http://cwpe.org/node/56|date=2010-04-03}}, Harris later revealed in an interview that she was quoting sister of one of her clients. [[Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment]]. 13 July 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2010.</ref> and that "we campaign to neuter dogs and yet we allow women to have 10 or 12 kids that they can't take care of".<ref>Dateno, Sarah. [http://www.pop.org/00000000187/coercive-pop-control-comes-home "Coercive Pop Control Comes Home: 'CRACK' Program Offers Women Payment to Be Sterilized"]. ''PRI Review'' ([[Population Research Institute (organization)|Population Research Institute]]) '''9''' (5). August/September 1999. Retrieved 21 October 2010.</ref> On the television news program ''[[60 Minutes II]]'' Harris was asked about these comments and said, "Well, you know my son that goes to Stanford said 'mom, please don't ever say that again,' but it's the truth, they don't just have one and two babies, they have litters."<ref>Paltrow, p.&nbsp;29.</ref>  More recently, Harris has offered a softer response to criticism: "I guess it depends on where your heart is. Some people are so into the women and their rights to get pregnant that they seem to forget about the rights of the kids. They act like these children don't matter.  People need to realize these women don't want to have babies that are taken away from them. Nothing positive comes to the woman who has eight children taken away from her."<ref name="Gostin" />

Opponents of the organization often argue that it should instead focus on addiction treatment or lobbying for government health care.<ref name="nytsel"/> The organization responds by saying that they do not have the resources to solve "national problems of poverty, housing, nutrition, education and rehabilitation services. Those resources we do have are spent to prevent a problem for $300 rather than paying millions after it happens in cost to care for a potentially damaged child."<ref name="ppobj"/> Weaning one opioid-addicted baby off drugs costs about $500,000.<ref name="sob"/>

The organization has been harshly criticized by many as potentially leading to [[eugenic]] outcomes.<ref>https://www.eugenicsarchive.ca/encyclopedia?id=55542c7835ae9d9e7f00006e&view=reader</ref>