Overprotection under the law.

• Position: Law

Florida has struck down a law that forbade unmarried women from parachuting on Sundays. Texas women no longer face 12 months in prison for adjusting their stockings in public. And the ladies of Maine can now legally tickle a man under the chin with a feather duster. But in the state of Washington, it is still illegal to make derogatory remarks about a woman's virtue. And Jeanne Kohl- Wells, a state Senator from Seattle, says it's time for the 1909 "Slander of a Woman" law to go. Kohl-Welles, a Democrat, has introduced a bill to overturn the law, which made it a misdemeanor to slander any female older than 12 by uttering "any false or defamatory...