[WikiEN-l] Major Correction

Thu Oct 30 03:09:02 UTC 2003

The Cunctator wrote:

>There can't be a law on 'partial-birth abortion' because it doesn't
>really exist except as a political construct.
>
>That's one of the points Eileen has been trying to make.
>  
>
Given that a law entitled Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has been passed 
the US Congress recently, there's clearly some segment of the US 
population (a majority even) who think that such a thing does exist.  It 
may not be precisely defined, but neither is "hate crime", and that 
doesn't mean that we shouldn't have an article on [[hate crime]].  To 
claim the concept is vague and there's disagreement over what it covers 
is one thing; to claim that it doesn't exist at all is quite another.

I of course don't object at all to a discussion of why the term is vague 
and disagreements over what exactly it might cover.

-Mark