Hillary Clinton calls for crackdown on campus sex assaults: (HILLARY GROUP)
Hillary Clinton returned to Iowa Monday for a one-day campaign visit, where she addressed campus sexual assault for the first time since hitting the trail.
Her proposals, which she outlined at University of Northern Iowa, were in line with initiatives that have been proposed by President Barack Obama, as well as the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Sen. Claire McCaskill, Kirsten Gillibrand, Dean Heller -- and even Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio and Sen. Chuck Grassley, who has been leading an investigation into Clinton’s use of email at the State Department. The bill is currently pending in Congress.
Speaking from behind a “Women for H” sign, Clinton said that sexual assault had a huge impact on young women’s lives, noting that it causes some to “drop out, some never finish their education." It’s not enough to condemn campus sexual assault, we need to end campus sexual assault, for the “young women who are truly lost and left out” because of an inadequate response to a serious women's rights issue.
Clinton said as president she would “fight to make sure every campus offers every survivor the support she needs,” and also noted that “although survivors of sexual assault are predominantly women, this also happens to men.”
“Rape is a crime wherever it happens,” she said. “Schools have an obligation -- a legal obligation and a moral obligation -- to protect every student’s right to get an education free from discrimination, free from fear.”
She called the issue “deeply important to me, to try and work together with everybody, to bring about the changes necessary in behavior and attitude, to try and confront the continuing challenge of violence against women, and in particular, here on campuses.”...
Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-sex-assaults-campus-iowa-213606#ixzz3lk7Bt9XD
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