Please note that a test I conducted today (4 April 2008) differs from today's report in The Inquirer and yesterday's report in Wired.

Wired has a report by Sarah Lai Stirland about Popline, a database about reproductive health managed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Wired claims the search engine censors queries containing the term "abortion". The Inquirer has a similar story by Sylvie Barak.

Johns Hopkins' Debbie Dickson said "We recently made all abortion terms stop words," according to Wired.

Wired has an update. They report on a statement by Tim Parsons, a spokesman for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland.

"The blocking of the keyword 'is a decision that the dean does not support in any way,' he added, and the administrators are unblocking the search for the term right now."

Note:
I searched for "abortion" on Popline, today, 4 April 2008. It generated results for me. The result page said that it found 4662 records. According to Wired it used to find nearly 25000 records.

Popline:
http://db.jhuccp.org/ics-wpd/popweb/

Wired:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/a-government-fu.html
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/administrators.html

Inquirer:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/04/word-abortion-censored-american