RBG Didn't Want to Lower Age of Consent

RBG Didn't Want to Lower Age of Consent

In the 1970s Ginsburg worked on sex discrimination in federal law(Getty).

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Following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020, an Instagram post reprised an old claim that stated she wanted to “lower the age of consent for sex to 12.” The rumor is based on a falsification of a report she co-authored in the 1970s on sex bias in federal laws.

The misinformation spread across multiple users on Twitter.

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