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Ipas Calls for Investigation of Censorship
April 10, 2008
A federally funded Johns Hopkins University project, Popline, made a recent decision to remove an Ipas publication on abortion and human rights from a vast database of publications maintained as an international web-based resource for health researchers and the general public. Administrators further decided to block searches on the term "abortion" for visitors to the website, a decision reversed on April 4 by the Dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health when the issue reached the media. The Ipas publication, the Winter 2008 issue of A: The Abortion Magazine, was not re-instated.
Ipas regards the singling out of this publication for exclusion from more than 26,000 items on the Popline database that relate to abortion as another instance of excessive and politically motivated government interference in free speech and academic freedom.
"As Americans, we count on decisionmakers at every level in our government to hold the line in protecting basic principles. Countless government-funded programs and publications have been subject to the same intimidation and censorship by this Administration, which has even extended to intrusion in science-based work of the World Health Organization. Such interference must end," says Ipas President Elizabeth Maguire."We call on members of the press to continue to investigate these issues so that we can see both the causes and consequences of these government actions."
©1998-2008 Ipas
Full press release (PDF, 14K):
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For more information, visit:
http://www.ipas.org/
category: Member Organization News : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 10 April 2008
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