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A Slippery Slope: The POPLINE Controversy

Pablo Rodriguez MD on April 11, 2008 - 9:48am
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Call it censored, call it buried, call it lost - the search term “abortion” was all of the above for approximately a month on POPLINE. “Contraception,” “sexuality,” and “reproductive health” are the next stopwords, unless we remain vigilant and protest loudly.


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Update: Your Search for "Abortion" Now Yields Something

Amie Newman on April 3, 2008 - 11:00am
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Why did the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's medical database black out the word "abortion" from its searchable terms? Does federal funding equal censorship? Update: The Dean of the School releases a statement and restores the word.


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