Washington D.C., Sep 28, 2007 / 08:19 am
One of the largest wireless telephone companies in the United States has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America to make its mobile network available for a text-message program.
The other leading wireless carriers have accepted the program, which allows people to sign up for pro-abortion text messages from Naral. But Verizon Wireless says it has the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, despite the profits it could have generated from the program.
In turning down the program, Verizon told Naral that it does not accept programs from any group “that seeks to promote an agenda or distribute content that, in its discretion, may be seen as controversial or unsavory to any of our users.”
Nancy Keenan, Naral’s president, said Verizon’s decision interfered with political speech and activism.