Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Occasionally, in my more paranoid moments, I've thought that the next step after outlawing abortion would be criminal investigation of miscarriages.

"Until now, the rational part of my brain always considered that a slippery slope type of argument, and mocked my paranoia. Now I'm struggling for the words to articulate my outrage."

-- minim_calibre, 2005-01-07, in response to learning about Virginia Delegate John Cosgrove's bill which would mandate that a woman who suffers a miscarriage without medical attendance report that to the police within twelve hours or face up to a year in jail. (It's worse than this one-sentence summary makes it sound. here are links to more info, and a last-minute edit: a response to the blogosphere furor, update, and clarification from Delegate Cosgrove, which is either a correction of careless phrasing or a strategic retreat from the glare, and being halfway to sleep as I edit this at 04:00, I'll try to figure that out after I've slept.

P.S.: The main point of this entry was supposed to be minim_calibre's quote, not all the news links (which I would've put in a normal entry), since this is, after all, my QotD entry for today. But once I'd decided to bump the quote previously scheduled for today in favour of posting this while it's still topical, I figured, "Well, I've got all these links right in front of me right now..." It's not the start of a new direction for my quote of the day -- in general I'll use a normal (not QotD) entry for things like this.

Busy, still behind, etc., but wanted to toss another political link at y'all: syntonic_comma has posted the instructions to a new contra dance by Steve Recchia for the presidential inauguration, called "Four More Years". You won't have to be a contradancer or a square dancer for it to make sense. Enjoy.