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- From: clavazzi@nyx.cs.du.edu (The_Doge)
- Subject: Information on the Common Ground initiative
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.042421.29379@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Keywords: Common Ground
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:24:21 GMT
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- Someone (can't recall who, sorry) recently posted a request for
- information on attempts by pro-choice and pro-life groups to combine their
- energies in dealing with problem areas that they both agree on, such as
- improving access to pre-natal care, wider availability of birth control
- and STD information, day-care, and so on. I mentioned the Common Ground
- initiative (which originated here in St. Louis, to the best of my knowledge)
- and said I'd try to obtain more information on it.
- As it happens, Laura Cohen of Missouri NARAL was on a talk show at
- the station where my own show appears, and I chatted with her about this
- briefly. Common Ground is a joint effort of Reproductive Health Services
- (a local provider of abortion, family planning, and other gynecological
- services such as pap smears and so on) and some members of Missouri Right
- to Life (Loretta Wagner is the head of this organization, I believe). If
- you'd like more information on Common Ground and its activities, I'm told
- that you can contact Jean Cavender at RHS here in St. Louis, 314-367-0300.
- Since the organization is cooperative rather than confrontational, it
- doesn't generate much news. There was a nice write-up about it in out local
- "alternative" weekly paper a year or two back, however.
- I don't know how successful groups like this will be -- extremists on
- both sides will disown them -- but I'm glad someone is at least making the
- attempt.
- The_Doge
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