Federal officials discovered that John Hopkins University had set up a reproductive health site to ignore the term “abortion” in searches.

John Hopkins manages the world’s largest reproductive health database, known as Popline, which includes more than 360,000 articles on family planning, sexually transmitted diseases, fertility and sexual problems.

After being informed about the restrictions, which blocked the access to thousands of studies, the dean of the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health restored full access to the site again.

In a statement, Dean Michael J. Klag said he had learned about the restrictions Friday morning and he immediately ordered administrators of the health website to restore “abortion” as a search term. He also said he would thoroughly investigate the case, to see why this decision was taken.

“I could not disagree more strongly with this decision, and I have directed that the POPLINE administrators restore "abortion" as a search term immediately. I will also launch an inquiry to determine why this change occurred,” the statement read.

After librarians at the Medical Center of the University of California, San Francisco, complained about having difficulties in accessing various articles from Popline, a manager of the health site, Debra L. Dickson, explained that the site considered the decision was “best for now,” the New York Times informs.

Dickson also suggested that the librarians could use alternatives for the term “abortion,” such as “postconception” or “unwanted pregnancy.”

According to the New York Times, Gail L. Sorrough, director of medical library services at the medical center in San Francisco, said she could see no need for this replacement of terms, and argued that “unwanted pregnancy” was not a synonym for “abortion.”

Dr. Klag also added that he could not allow such restrictions to take place, as John Hopkins School of Public Health was “dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and not its restriction.”