{"id":148,"date":"2008-04-04T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T20:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/2008\/04\/04\/wired-term-abortion-removed-from-us-funded-health-database\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:38:18","slug":"wired-term-abortion-removed-from-us-funded-health-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2008\/04\/04\/wired-term-abortion-removed-from-us-funded-health-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired: Term &#8220;Abortion&#8221; removed from U.S.-funded health database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Wired Blog Network, &#8220;A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the  world&#8217;s largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block  searches on the word <em>abortion<\/em>, concealing nearly 25,000 search results.&#8221;   There was no notice of the change on the site.<\/p>\n<p>The database, <a href=\"http:\/\/db.jhuccp.org\/ics-wpd\/popweb\/\">POPLINE<\/a>, is a product of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  At present, &#8220;Abortion&#8221; does <a href=\"http:\/\/db.jhuccp.org\/ics-wpd\/popweb\/Thesaurus\/tr7.htm\">appear in the online index<\/a>, which suggests the use of alternate term &#8220;Fertility Control, Postconception&#8221; in keyword searches.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2008\/04\/a-government-fu.html\"><em>Wired<\/em> online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Wired Blog Network, &#8220;A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the world&#8217;s largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block searches on the word abortion, concealing nearly 25,000 search results.&#8221; There was no notice of the change on the site. The database, POPLINE, is a product of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}