Government-Backed Health Search Engine Blocks The Word "Abortion"

Wired:

A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the world's largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block searches on the word "abortion," concealing nearly 25,000 search results.

Called Popline, the search site is run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland. It's funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, the federal office in charge of providing foreign aid, including health care funding, to developing nations.

The massive database indexes a broad range of reproductive health literature, including titles like "Previous abortion and the risk of low birth weight and preterm births," and "Abortion in the United States: Incidence and access to services, 2005."

But on Thursday, a search on "abortion" was producing only the message "No records found by latest query."

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Comments

[JohnFromCensornati]

What have they listed it under?
Baby murder?

[Boboday555]

Nope...FREE WILL!

[JohnFromCensornati]

That doesn't sound like BushCo to me.

[goofticket]

I wonder what results come up by combining, Larry Craig and oral health?

[rwe]

it better be back, would not want Barack to punish his girls

[iPolitics]

Bush is the the reason abortion should be legal. He's the poster boy

[wndrwrthg]

In his case make it retroactive.

[barkingcat]

Agreed -- the search engine is working now with the word "abortion"...

[shanghaislim]

Gee, kind a like the Chinese blocking the words Tiananmen Square from their search engines?

[cynara]

I was thinking the same thing. This is just outrageous.

[elr50]

Too bad Barbara Bush didn't try it-three times.

[lowry99]

zing!

[Fathoms]

It's Friday, I just tried them. The term 'abortion' received over 300 hits when searched. Looks like they were shamed back into the information business.

[Cybersquirt]

Ashamed. Heh. You're assuming they have souls.

[Witkacy]

But 300 hits is nowhere near the 25000 cited in the article - What gives?