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      No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Did Not Advocate Lowering Age Of Consent To 12

      The claim is false; it and can be traced to an altered quote taken from a 1977 report that Ginsburg co-authored on civil rights and sex bias in the US Code.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  23 Sept 2020 4:29 PM IST
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      No, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Did Not Advocate Lowering Age Of Consent To 12
      Social media posts claiming late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advocated lowering the age of sexual consent to 12 resurfaced after her death. The claim is false; it and can be traced to an altered quote taken from a 1977 report that Ginsburg co-authored on civil rights and sex bias in the US Code.


      "PEOPLE...let'
      s not forget what was said in her own words, 'The age of consent for sexual acts must be lowered to 12 years of age.'- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1977," a September 19, 2020 Facebook post reads.


      A screenshot of a Facebook post taken on September 21, 2020

      Similar claims can be found on Twitter -- here and here -- Facebook -- here, here and here -- and Instagram, here.

      Also Read: Ruth Ginsburg's Death: Stage Set For Political Drama For Supreme Court

      Some users mention "Pizzagate" in their post -- in reference to a discredited conspiracy theory that the hacked email of Hillary Clinton's staffers revealed a secret child sex ring -- while others directly accuse Ginsburg of being a pedophile.

      "Now let's watch the left honor another pedo and all her work," one of the posts says.

      Renewed interest in the claim coincides with the death of Ginsburg at age 87 on September 18 and a disinformation push under the hashtag #SaveTheChildren, which has been used to stoke fears about sexual predators across social media platforms.

      A brilliant jurist and feminist icon, Ginsburg was named to the Supreme Court in 1993.

      A keyword search in Google showed that two iterations of the claim can be found that same year in the Congressional record -- here on page 12 in the central column -- and in a testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee -- here on page five in the first paragraph.

      Conservative commentators Thomas L. Jipping and Susan Hirschmann, who opposed Ginsburg's nomination to the Supreme Court, attributed the quote to her.

      A Google search for the quote attributed to Ginsburg did not lead to any evidence she advocated that position.​

      All claims refer to the same "quote" on page 102 of a 1977 report issued by the US Commission on Civil Rights titled "Sex Bias in the U.S. Code: A Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights," and co-authored by Ginsburg. The full digitized report is available here.

      The report aims to identify "sex-based references in the United States Code," and "eliminate sex-discriminatory provisions in the Code."

      Page 102 is part of a chapter that aims to "eradicate sex-based discrimination in the catalogue of crimes."


      A screenshot of a 1977 report co-authored by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, taken on September 21, 2020

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      Looking at the bottom of the page, it is clear that the full quote is from a Senate measure introduced in 1973 (S. 1400) that never became law.

      It was referenced to show how the language could be modified to avoid the assumption that the victim of a sexual assault will always be a woman. This passage of the report does not advocate lowering the age of sexual consent to 12.

      Throughout her career, Ginsburg fought gender discrimination and advocated for equal rights to minorities. Her death stripped the Supreme Court, which was already tilted to the right, of one of its steadiest liberal votes.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   Ruth Bader Ginsburg advocated for age of consent to be lowered to 12.
      Claimed By :  Posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
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