Last week Verizon Wireless said they would not accept text messages from NARAL Pro-Choice America. The "offending message" was declined because "abortion" is considered "controversial or unsavory".
NARAL provided an example of a recent text message that it had sent to supporters: "End Bush’s global gag rule against birth control for world’s poorest women! Call Congress. (202) 224-3121. Thnx! Naral Text4Choice"
Now Verizon has reversed its position. "The decision to not allow text messaging on an important, though sensitive, public policy issue was incorrect, and we have fixed the process that led to this isolated incident," Jeffrey Nelson, a company spokesman, said in a statement.
Is this a rapid response to a backlash from its customers? And does the fact that the story broke on all major wires yesterday have anything to do with the companies about face?
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