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• Position: Stateline - Outdated Washington law on slander of women - Brief Article

Believing a 1909 law in Washington to be a vestige of sexism, Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles is sponsoring a bill to repeal the statute that makes "slander of a woman" a crime. It prohibits "false of defamatory words or language which shall injure or impair" the virtuous and chaste reputation of any woman over the age of 12. The law does say it's OK to slander a "common prostitute." "This is one of those old laws that is really irrelevant now,"...