>Subject: Midwifery Action Alert
>Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 07:30:50 -0500
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>
>I received the following this AM.   Please read - this is crucial!
>
>Willie/Ellen
>______________________________________________
>
>Dear Willie,
>
>I would like to ask you to post this to every list (or whatever else) to
>which you subscribe, and ask that you request your fellow subscribers to
>those list show their support by forwarding this information to
>everybody they know - both by email and through the use of (dare I say?)
>the telephone.
>
>This is a crucial step in our efforts to make certain that midwifery and
>homebirth remain an option in Illinois.  If we fail - those options will
>most certainly be lost.
>
>Thank you, dear Willie, from the bottom of the most special places of my
>heart.
>
>Marilyn
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>
>Dear all of you,
>
>I would like to alert anyone in the Chicago area that there will be a
>press conference on Wed (Sept. 10. 1997) at 9:30 a.m. in front of the
>Illinois State Building at the corner of Clark and Randolph in Chicago.
>Our attorney will be conducting the press conference, and has asked that
>we have many, many people in attendance.
>
>We implore any and all who are within traveling distance to be there for
>this press conference!  We ask that you notify anyone and everyone whom
>you know (or ever heard tell of), and ask, beg, and/or plead for them to
>attend!
>
>It is our goal to have such a crowd there for the media, that there will
>be an unmistakable message sent to everyone in Illinois (the nation?)
>that we WANT midwifery in ILLINOIS!  We want to show our support for
>every profession (doulas, CBE, etc...) that offers suggestions for, or
>recommendsany type of treatment for, the relief for any human
>condition.
>
>We want to show that it is NOT only midwives who believe that midwifery
>IS midwifery - and *not* the practice of medicine.
>
>Please help.
>
>Marilyn McNett
>
>P.S. For more information please see our new web site at:
>http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/5510/
>and sign our guest book, leaving a message about what YOU think about
>the IL MW Witchunt...and check back often as our page is newly born and
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>it is still a foolish thing.
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