Update: Verizon has reversed its Naral decision! Within hours of the front page New York Times story, the resulting blog storm, and NARAL's request to supporters to send e-blasts to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, Verizon announced that it WILL allow pro choice text messaging. That was fast!
Verizon Wireless has decided to block pro choice text messages because the corporation judges them to be "controversial or unsavory." So, no Naral Pro-Choice America text messages for you - IF you are a Verizon Wireless customer.
And why would you want to be one?
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.
The other leading wireless carriers have accepted the program, which allows people to sign up for text messages from Naral by sending a message to a five-digit number known as a short code.
Sign up for Pro-Choice Text Alerts on Your Cell Phone.
via The Sideshow
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