Spanish Web Site Omits Abortion Stand

The Columbia Daily Tribune of June 29, 2003, reports under the headline Position lost in translation that the Spanish-language site of Rep. Dick Gephardt makes no mention of abortion, “one of the most controversial topics in American politics,” even though his English site has an “issues” section where “Right to Choose” is one of the categories, and also has a link to a January speech entitled “One thing must be certain: The freedom to choose.” According to the Tribune, Gephardt’s campaign explained that this is “simply because not all the English items have been translated…” and “a matter of being able to translate everything.”