Verizon rejects pro-choice texting program

The New York Times reports that NARAL Pro-Choice America has been banned from using their text-messaging program to communicate to their activists because their messages are “controversial or unsavory.”
Text messaging has been increasingly used by political organizations and groups as a means of sending alerts or information to their members, yet Verizon has chosen to discriminate against the organization for sending messages such as “End Bush’s global gag rule against birth control for world’s poorest women! Call Congress. (202) 224-3121. Thnx! Naral Text4Choice.â€? How unsavory.
Verizon spokesman Jeffrey Nelson says they’re (of course) “neutral” on the issue of abortion and their decision wasn’t because NARAL is pro-choice, but claims “It is the topic itself that has been on our list.â€?
So I have a request to all of you with Verizon cell phones: text all of your friends with Verizon cell phones, “Abortion should be legal and uncensored.” Then have them forward it on and cancel their account.
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Full disclosure: Jessica has a working relationship with NARAL.

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