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US-funded health search-engine censors all results for searches on "abortion" -- UPDATED

April 4, 2008 6:34am

Yeah, this story sounds right. When my mother worked for a federally-funded family planning clinic during Bush Sr. era, they prevented the clinic from talking about abortion as an option for women who had positive pregnancy tests. So if someone asked "where can I go to have an abortion?" all the counselor could say was "I'm sorry I can't talk about that." The clinic eventually got around the issue by having certain people's salaries (and even office space) not funded by the Fed money. So the reception area was funded by federal dollars, and the counselor's office wasn't. Crazy isn't it? When Bill Clinton campaigned in '92 he promised that this would be one of the first things he would reverse. And sure enough within a week or so of his being inaugurated the clinic got a fax saying that they could once again mention abortion as an option. This is what goes on in our country every day.

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