Planned Parenthood Applauds United Airlines for Blocking a Pro-Life Website From In-Flight Viewing. Here's What Really Happened.

A member of Live Action News, the publishing arm of the pro-life group Live Action, recently discovered that their website was blocked from in-flight viewing on United Airlines flights. But the websites for both Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America were accessible on the flight.

.@United Airlines has censored @LiveAction by blocking our news arm from its inflight wifi. Both @NARAL and @PPact websites are permitted.

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) January 27, 2016

Planned Parenthood applauded United for blocking the pro-life website.

Lila Rose, the founder of Live Action, took to Twitter to ask the company why her organization's website is blocked.

I fly @united and was disturbed to find they had blocked @LiveActionNews. We had reported their CEOs pro-@PPact position. Was this personal?

— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) January 27, 2016

But United Airlines said that Live Action News was blocked in error by a third-party wi-fi provider, and the block will be removed.

@LilaGraceRose One of our Wi-Fi providers relies on a third-party service to categorize websites. It appears that service has labeled... 1/3

— United (@united) January 27, 2016

@LilaGraceRose ...this site as “streaming and downloadable video” and blocked it. We have alerted the Wi-Fi provider to remove the... 2/3

— United (@united) January 27, 2016

@LilaGraceRose ...block. ^DS 3/3

— United (@united) January 27, 2016

“Planned Parenthood’s enthusiastic backing of the shutting out of Live Action's news website shouldn’t surprise anyone," Rose told TheBlaze. "The abortion chain has sought to silence and smear anyone who doesn't agree with its extreme ideology, as it's shown with its recent lawsuit against the activists who exposed its baby parts scandal. It has even censored its own supporters for not backing its endorsed candidate, Hillary Clinton, by deleting their comments on social media.”

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