Before second wave feminism, the idea I get from the literature (The Last of the Mohicans, etc.) is that the rule was 'death before dishonour.' Fictionally, at least, the ideal woman had to kill herself if someone raped her, to 'save her honour.' It was an insurmountable event.

The NFL has already warned the governor that next year's SB is at risk over this.

The NFL has already released a statement that could be viewed as a veiled threat to move the SB out of Arizona again.

Nope, not really. Misattributing something unfairly to the anti-vaccers is one thing, but literally putting vulnerable kids at risk because [your special snowflake is special/chemicals sound scary/you think your pediatrician is out to get you/you don't understand how science works] is a WHOLE OTHER LEVEL.

My mom's hospital roommate had her baby in the elevator and was totally embarrassed about it. So a little later the nurse was trying to make her feel better and said "a couple years ago a woman had her baby in the parking lot!" and the woman's husband said "that was her."

As soon as it came out, native New Yorkers were yelling at it for not knowing where it was going and getting in the way.

yeah, i'm too scared to do it again. im kinda ashamed to say that birthing my son was the most miserable days of my life. no beauty, no joy. only pain and uncertainty and doom and fear

Well this will be a fun story when the kid grows up.

This baby will never be sick. A filthy sidewalk in NYC has fortified this child's immune system to levels never seen before.

That movie is truly a gift that keeps on giving.

Children are still routinely vaccinated for polio in the U.S. unless their families opt out or they are medically unable.

Agreed. I want Arizona to be an example of what will happen to any state that passes legislation like this and I want the entire rotten GOP leadership of the state to take the blame.

I think this is the fault of Big Pharma, pumping toxins into our children's bloodstreams. Clearly these kids need to eat more organic food. Also, they need to get some healing crystals. Healing crystals fix everything.

Super Bowl XLIX is slated to be played in Arizona in 2015. There's precedence for the NFL pulling the game to a new location: the 1993 Super Bowl was moved to Pasadena when Arizona refused to create a holiday for MLK. I'm hoping the same thing happens here, since last time it cost Arizona a huge amount of money…

My scifi inclination is telling me that those anti-vaccer's have allowed the polio virus to incubate and mutate in humans, such that the efficacy of the old vaccine is diminished.

Here's the deal. They don't have to deal with the fallout, really. Jan Brewer is going to be the one who does. If she signs it, it's law, and they can say they tried to convince her not to, that they made a mistake and that they're not bigots come election time. If she doesn't sign it, they can say come election time…

Seriously. "Oops, I had a glass of wine and the hairdresser convinced me to get bangs!" is a far cry from legislation that sets a precedent for all kinds of nutso discrimination and misrepresents religious freedom.

"I had a lapse last week" means accidentally leaving your keys in the fridge after getting groceries, not advocating for 21st century Jim Crow legislation.

Honestly, I hope Brewer signs it. I hope she signs it and it gets challenged all the way to the Supreme Court. I hope Arizona loses millions if not billions in tax dollars and business revenue and tourist income. I hope the Supreme Court strikes this down on the basis of equal protection, which then sets the precedent…