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Government funded database censors the word “abortion”

April 3rd, 2008

LibrarianActivist.org - “A librarian wrote to the POPLINE database providers to ask why a search strategy, probably involving the word abortion, retrieved fewer results than it did 3 months earlier.”

Yowsa! This is horrible.

One Comment on “Government funded database censors the word “abortion””

  1. David Rothman UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13 Says:

    More detail from medical librarian Rachel Walden