Choosing to drink or take drugs is not consent to sex. New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie must allow a vote to close the state’s voluntary intoxication loophole.
Ten years ago, Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Stanford University student and swimmer Brock Turner to six months in county jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster at a frat party. Turner was convicted of three felonies. He served three months.
Feminists didn’t just get angry—we organized. Two years later, we recalled Persky with nearly 62 percent of the vote, backed by a coalition of women’s rights organizations including the Feminist Majority Foundation (publisher of Ms.)…