It's time for a little outrage.POPLINE, a federally funded database of reproductive health information, has removed "abortion" as a possible search term.A researcher wrote and asked why they were getting fewer results than before, and got this reply:INFO Project111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, MD 21202I would also suggest contacting your senators and USAID directly. Resource Shelf, and others have blogged this as well. We are all basing it on the original email and the fact that if you search for "abortion" in Popline now, without applying fancier search techniques, you get no results.My former taxonomy prof also wrote about it . He makes the point that knowledge organization schemes always have a political viewpoint, which is true -- how we think the world is organized determines what we think it means.But I think this all begs the point that popline is an open database for the public as well as researchers; and this move effectively cuts off providing abortion information from this source. Are such things unprecedented? No, of course not. That doesn't make it, however.