An effort that started in California is moving across the country. Billboards offering drug addicted women $200 for either getting sterilized or using long-term birth control like controversial Norplant, which consists of inserting the drug into the arm, or Depo-Provera, which is injected into women, are cropping up.

Other newspapers picked up on a story The Final Call has tracked for a nearly two years when such a billboard recently surfaced in Chicago.

Crack, an acronym for Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity, is running the campaign, which is anything but caring about children or mothers.

Drug addiction is a disease—which any high profile white addict will tell you—and sterilization or birth control are not the answer.

From the time Blacks were dragged to the shores of America, there has been a fear of a growing Black population. That fear has led to sterilization of Black women in the past and reports of high incidences of hysterectomies among young Black women in the 1990s—in Florida in particular.

Drug treatment providers say prevention, treatment, intervention and education are the tools needed to combat drugs and help people get their lives back together. But all of that costs more than $200 and would also mean recognizing that Black women with drug problems are people worthy of saving.

And as drug users are offered $200 to be sterilized or use controversial birth control, fertility clinic demands for donor eggs from women (ostensibly white women) are fetching $5,000.