Women Getting Away With Murder

Under Harriet Harman’s aegis, proposed major changes to the U.K.’s homicide laws are expected to pass through Parliament by early 2009. Barbara Kay

The most ominous — and most likely to fulfill Ms. Harman’s misguidedly jocular prediction of mass male flight from Britain — is the automatic reduction of a charge of murder to manslaughter for women claiming past, or fear of future, abuse from male partners.