Verizon Blocks Abortion Rights Group Messages
Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program, according to The New York Times.
The program lets people sign up for NARAL text messages by sending a short text to a 5-digit number, known as a short code. The other leading wireless carriers have already accepted the program, according to the report. Verizon said in response to the controversy that “it had the right to block ‘controversial or unsavory’ text messages.”
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