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Category:abortion debate

I've noticed recent edit warring to remove this category, which I do not understand because the category seems appropriate for this article. The majority of text and references for this article relate to Fergusson's research on abortion and mental health, a topic which is a significant part of the abortion debate.--BoboMeowCat (talk) 18:14, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed that it is relevant to the abortion debate, the edit warring is a spillover effect from Talk:Sex-selective_abortion. Binksternet is arguing that "Before you can categorize this article as part of the abortion debate, you will have to compose text saying the abortion debate is a defining part of sex-selective abortion, and put that text into the article." Obviously there's no policy basis for that claim by Binksternet, which was pointed out, as well as the fact that most pages in the Abortion debate category don't meet that standard. Requests for a policy basis have not been addressed yet by Binkster. --7157.118.25a (talk) 19:21, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this person the only subject of a Wikipedia article to have ''Category:abortion debate'' on his article. Neither the word dispute not debate appears in his article. Even the Susan B Anthony article doesn't have the ''Category:abortion debate'' and she is the subject of a comprehensive article dealing with abortion debate. Does someone plan to go through similar abortion related BLP/articles to give them the same treatment that Fergusson is being given? Moriori (talk) 22:00, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Moriori, apparently, Susan B Anthony abortion debate was considered so significant someone created break away article Susan B. Anthony abortion dispute which is in the Category:abortion debate. Regarding your other question, it seems most of the people significant to the abortion debate fit neatly into the Category:pro-choice activist or Category:pro-life activist, and are classified as related to the abortion debate via those sub-categories, while Fergusson doesn't seem to fit neatly into either of those categories. That being said, I would not object to the creation of a sub-category specifically for people significant in abortion debate, if others think that would be a neater categorization system. --BoboMeowCat (talk) 23:22, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]