OK I went for this one too...
Here is my letter of this hour, as my dh just said, "it's an uphill battle
isn't it?"...
"Motherswork has said, ``We pride ourselves in providing the broadest range
of maternity fashion to be found anywhere in the world through our brick and
mortar stores and Internet sites,'' said Rebecca Matthias, founder and
president of Mothers
Work, Inc. ``Aligning with a leader like Ross Products allows us to increase
our early reach to women prior to their first maternity purchase decision,
and as they make their nursing apparel purchases, directing them to one of
our stores in malls across America. We are pleased to  join with Ross
Products in providing yet another way that can make our customers' lives
easier.''
Dear Motherswork,
    Your family of stores does have some lovely maternity and nursing
clothing, but with your new alliance with Ross Products, whose sole aim it is
to promote product, like any solid business, in this case formula, I doubt
many moms-to-be will be purchasing or continuing to purchase, nursing
apparel. Giving out free or discounted Ross product coupons, and/or
information about breastfeeding from a company whose aim is to sell as much
mother's milk replacement as possible, does not bode well for nursing apparel
purchases, nor for the future health of mothers and babies who will
undoubtedly be using this free misinformation. Your alliance with Ross will
surely been understood as an endorsement of their wide variety of human milk
subsitutes. Your business as a maternity source may survive, but your vision
of your company as a one trying to "make our customers' lives easier" has no
real meaning. A baby raised on formula will be sicker in the short and long
runs, and taking care of, or coping with, the short and long-term  emotional
and health costs of these myriad illnesses does not make anyone's life
easier.
    This is a sad day when profits alone come before health - an unhealthy
alliance for the future. I will no longer be able to recommend your stores to
anyone as a  source of good, unbiased information for women in their
childbearing years.
Judy LeVan Fram, Brooklyn, NY"

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