TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm

List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Sun, 3 Apr 2005 13:22:42 -0400

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and JOHN SCHWARTZ

WASHINGTON, March 28 - The parents of Terri Schiavo have authorized a
conservative direct-mailing firm to sell a list of their financial
supporters, making it likely that thousands of strangers moved by her
plight will receive a steady stream of solicitations from
anti-abortion and conservative groups.

"These compassionate pro-lifers donated toward Bob Schindler's legal
battle to keep Terri's estranged husband from removing the feeding
tube from Terri," says a description of the list on the Web site of
the firm, Response Unlimited, which is asking $150 a month for 6,000
names and $500 a month for 4,000 e-mail addresses of people who
responded last month to an e-mail plea from Ms. Schiavo's father.
"These individuals are passionate about the way they value human
life, adamantly oppose euthanasia and are pro-life in every sense of
the word!"

Privacy experts said the sale of the list was legal and even
predictable, if ghoulish.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/politics/29donate.html?ex=1269752400&en=f1312f1b5ae170ad&ei=5090

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