Wrong.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg co-authored the USCCR report, which specifically targeted Sex Bias in the U.S. Code.
Under 18 U.S.C. 1153 and 2032, it is a crime for a person to have carnal knowledge of a female not his wife who has not reached 16 years of age. The USCCR noted that the legal definition of rape assumed the offender was a man and the victim was a woman. The report argued: “These provisions clearly fail to comply with the equal rights principle. They fail to recognize that women of all ages are not the only targets of sexual assault; men and boys can also be the victims of rape.”
On page 102 of the USCCR, the report recommended removing the phrase “carnal knowledge of any female, not his wife who has not attained the age of sixteen years” and replacing it with “a Federal, sex-neutral definition of the offense patterned after S. 1400 section 1633”
This was not to lower the age of consent but rather to protect any person older or younger than 16 from rape.
When Ginsburg was being nominated for the Supreme Court, Thomas L. Jipping, Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch, made similar misleading arguments by framing these changes as an attempt to lower the age of consent by the USCCR.
This is just simply not true.
