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U.S. funded medical site aborts “abortion” search
Score one for censorship and right-wing conspiracies – Popline, the self proclaimed world’s largest database on reproductive health has begun blocking all searches containing the word abortion. The site is run by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland with funding provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
“We recently made all abortion terms stop words,” [Debbie] Dickson [manager of the database] wrote in a note to Gloria Won, the UCSF medical center librarian making the inquiry. “As a federally funded project, we decided this was best for now.”
Dickson continues by educating everyone on how to properly use a search engine, such as the suggestion of alternative phrases. Regardless of which side of the fence you are on, abortion is a legally protected right. Any attempt to curtail information provided by a U.S. Government funded (and by association our tax dollars) repository is ridiculous and equally disturbing. Look for this to garner no attention because of the controversy surrounding the topic being censored.
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