Wired: Term “Abortion” removed from U.S.-funded health database
April 4th, 2008 by LOCL
According to the Wired Blog Network, “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.” There was no notice of the change on the site.
The database, POPLINE, is a product of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At present, “Abortion” does appear in the online index, which suggests the use of alternate term “Fertility Control, Postconception” in keyword searches.
Read the full article from Wired online.
Posted in Government Information, News
April 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
According to the New York Times, the dean of the Public Health School lifted the search restrictions after learning of them on Friday, April 4.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
For Catholics and other religions, the removal of “abortion” from certain key databases can represent as a victory to some extend.