The New York Times reports, “Saying it had the right to block ‘controversial or unsavory’ text 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.”

Verizon told Naral that it reserves the right to bar 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.”

A Naral spokesman argues, “No company should be allowed to censor the message we want to send to people who have asked us to send it to them.”

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