PLANNED Parenthood Pushes Debunked ‘1 in 5’ Stat to Crush Trump Campus Sex Assault Policy
Planned Parenthood is dusting off an already debunked statistic to urge opposition to the Trump administration’s proposed campus sex misconduct rule that emphasizes both the seriousness of sexual assault and due process for those accused of misconduct. However, the “1 in 5” statistic – spread widely by the Obama administration through its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – is “wildly at odds with the official crime statistics,” said American Enterprise Institute resident scholar and former philosophy professor Christina Hoff Sommers, in a fact-check video: According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the actual rate of sexual assault on college campuses is 6.1 per 1,000 students, or .03 in 5. The rate of rape and sexual assault for non-students is actually 1.2 times higher than for students – 7.6 per 1,000. “Where did the CDC find more than a million and nearly 14 million victims of sexual violence that professional criminologists somehow overlooked?” Sommers asked in the video. “It found them by using a poorly constructed telephone survey with a low response rate and a non-representative sample of respondents. No one interviewed was asked if they had been raped or sexually assaulted.”Armed with the false “1 in 5” statistic however, the Obama administration threatened to cut funding to colleges and universities who did not implement its policy… In November, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced the proposed new rule and opened it to public comment. “Throughout this process, my focus was, is, and always will be on ensuring that every student can learn in a safe and nurturing environment,” DeVos said. In her announcement of the new rule, DeVos cited cases of students, nearly all male, who were either expelled or punished in some other manner after being accused of misconduct actions which were never proven. “Instead of working with schools,” DeVos said, “the prior administration weaponized the Office for Civil Rights.”
breitbart By Dr. Susan Berry
