Mail brings worry

New parents say pamphlets carried unwanted messages.

By SHAWNA RICHTER

srichter@thehawkeye.com

Less than one month ago, The Hawk Eye printed "That's My Baby," an insert listing parents and their babies for the year 2005.

Less than two weeks ago, those parents started getting mail — pro–life and anti–vaccination mail from Donna Holman, an activist and Missionary to the Preborn member from Keokuk.

When the insert was printed, Holman felt an opportunity had presented itself. She photocopied the pictures, cut them out and pasted them to envelopes with the parents names already there. Then she looked up their addresses in phone books or at Des Moines County courthouse.

"Some I couldn't find at all," she said. Out of the 88 babies printed in the paper, 72 families received mail.

"I used to send them all the time," she said about the letters. "I sent them every month until they stopped printing names (of babies) in the paper."



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