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Think Progress: Anti-choice activists attempt to subvert eBay efforts to prevent Roeder auction.
TPMMuckraker: Anti-Abortion Activist Behind Auction For Roeder: For-Sale Items Do Not Glorify Violence
Iowa Independent: Iowa activist organizes fundraiser for accused abortion doctor assassin
| @deepfrymychevy @ajr1111 eBay Auction Items for Scott Roeder's Legal Defense: http://bit.ly/2zHtpJ (via @lizzwinstead) 11/2/2009 |
| Must read @ TPMMuckracker: eBay fundraiser for accused Tiller killer's defense fund http://bit.ly/2zHtpJ http://bit.ly/2P4GWD 11/2/2009 |
Anti-choice activists attempt to subvert eBay efforts to prevent Roeder auction.
Think Progress —
... and using “spellings that make searches difficult.” TPMMuckraker posted a slideshow of the items Roeder’s supporters planned to auction, but now reports that ...
Anti-Abortion Activist Behind Auction For Roeder: For-Sale Items Do Not Glorify Violence
TPMMuckraker —
... activist who set up an eBay auction to benefit the suspect in the George Tiller murder, tells TPMmuckraker in a phone interview that she's angry that eBay pulled her items -- and that she believes they did not glorify violence, but rather "glorify the end of a very violent man."
"Actually I thought [eBay] was the last bastion of free enterprise in America, where normal people could put things up for sale," Dinwiddie told us. "I see they do have a political agenda." The items put on eBay -- and pulled by the site today -- included prison art signed by Roeder ...
Iowa activist organizes fundraiser for accused abortion doctor assassin
Iowa Independent —
... on eBay to raise money, an effort that launched Sunday night. The items include several graphic drawings done by a fellow inmate and signed by Roeder. A spokesman for eBay initially told the Kansas City Star that while the company does not oppose all listings that raise money for legal defense funds, “our policy does not permit listings that benefit someone charged with or convicted of a crime.” ...


