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The world's largest database on reproductive health, POPLINE, has been blocking searches using the term "abortion"

discrepancy in the retrieval

"Eliminating this term essentially blocks access to the reports in the database and ultimately to information about abortion,"

The block was an "overreaction," says Michael Klag, the dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, which maintains the POPLINE database.

An inquiry into why the world's largest database on reproductive health blocked searches using the term "abortion" has found the restriction was put in place because of articles from an abortion advocacy magazine available on the site.

includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.

includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.

includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.

they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.

You can just engineer a crime scene,”

A potential invasion of personal privacy is another.

The system has several underlying database tables, including zip codes, cities and station data. The zip code and city tables, in addition to containing information about the locations, also include the latitude and longitude for the centroid each location.

At the core, the system works based on latitudes and longitudes.

Once we have the latitude and longitude, we perform a series of calculations based on the Great Circle Calcuation (GCC), which helps us to determine distances on a curved surface (ie. the Earth - and we are assuming that it is not flat). Using the GCC, we look for stations near the latitude and longitude, based on a 100 mile radius from that point. From that list of stations, which is too inclusive, we start our process of narrowing down the results to the actual stations that can be heard.