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