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‘A mess’: Law group rejects affirmative consent

By Ashe Schow
Published May 18, 2016 8:37pm ET
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‘A mess’: Law group rejects affirmative consent
ALI President Roberta Cooper Ramo at one point took the microphone to suggest that if the draft weren't adopted, we would be "going back to 1962" — a reference to ALI's current model penal code that is horribly outdated. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) | CHARLES DHARAPAK

The American public was spared — for now — the possibility of being labeled rapists overnight thanks to a new definition of what is and isn’t consent.

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