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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto">September 19, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">CONTACT:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.75pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Farrell Howe | Marketing & Communications Manager</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Kalamazoo Public Library | CEN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">315 S. Rose St. | Kalamazoo, MI, 49007<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:white">M</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Roboto">eet the Author: Patricia Relf<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Roboto">Featuring the book <i><a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/search/?f=*&st=*&k=To+Offer+Compassion%3A%C2%A0+A+History+of+the+Clergy+Consultation+Service+on+Abortion">To
Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion </a></i><br>
by Doris A. Dirks and Patricia A. Relf<br>
Thursday, September 26, 6–7 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Kalamazoo, MI, Thursday, September 19, 2019.
<a href="http://www.kpl.gov/">Kalamazoo Public Library</a> is proud to welcome author Patricia Relf to Kalamazoo on Thursday, September 26, 6–7 pm in the
<a href="https://www.kpl.gov/venue/van-deusen-room-central/">Van Deusen Room</a> at the
<a href="http://www.kpl.gov/cen">Central Library</a> located at 315 South Rose Street.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto">In 1967, when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every U.S. state, a group of ministers and rabbis formed to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies—including referral to licensed physicians
willing to perform the procedure. By 1973, the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion eventually spread from coast to coast, referring hundreds of thousands of women for safe abortions without a single fatality.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Hear co-author Patricia Relf discuss the writing of this detailed history of this unique and largely forgotten movement, drawing on extensive interviews with original participants. Publisher’s Weekly wrote
that the book, “Provide [s] critically important social history that too many in today’s abortion wars have never known or chosen to forget.” For more information about this book, please visit: <a href="http://offercompassion.com/" target="_blank">offercompassion.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto">Books will be available for sale/signing at this event from
<a href="http://www.michigannews.biz/">Michigan News Agency</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Roboto">Patricia Relf</span></b><span style="font-family:Roboto"> is the author of numerous children's books.<sup>
</sup> She has been a professor at the department of foreign languages at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Michigan_University" title="Western Michigan University">Western Michigan University</a> in Kalamazoo, Michigan where she lived until 2015.
She now lives in Cleveland, Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto">In 2017, Relf published her first book for adults,
<i>To Offer Compassion</i>, which chronicles the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion. Some of her major works include:
<i>What's Happening?: A Book of Explanations</i>; <i>A Dinosaur Named Sue</i>; <i>
Tonka Trucks Night and Day.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">All Kalamazoo Public Library events are free and open to the public <b>unless otherwise indicated in the event
description</b>. A library card is not required to attend. Guests who require special accommodations can submit their request to the event coordinator by calling 269-553-7800 or emailing <a href="mailto:events@kpl.gov"><span style="color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">events@kpl.gov</span></a>.<br>
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For more information about other fun KPL events, <a href="https://www.kpl.gov/connect/"><span style="color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">sign up for our e-newsletter</span></a> or check out our <a href="https://www.kpl.gov/patron-support/resources/prism/prism/"><span style="color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#7F7F7F;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">quarterly
magazine PRISM online</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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