The Obama campaign, its surrogates, and its media allies are
accusing Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan of having
tried to "redefine rape"--but it was President Barack Obama himself who
redefined rape in January 2012, expanding the official federal
definition to include male victims and different forms of non-consensual
sex. The definition of "forcible" rape to which Ryan--and other
legislators, including 11 Democrats--referred in a 2011 bill was in line
with the federal definition of rape before Obama changed it. The claim
that Ryan tried to "redefine rape" is therefore anachronistic, and
provably false.
