1.0 link 95093 <![CDATA[Government-Backed Health Search Engine Blocks The Word "Abortion"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/04/government-backed-health_n_95093.html 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...

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