Yesterday, CarolynBMaloney & fellow women's rights advocates gathered to call on the Senate to vote on S.J. Res 1, which would remove the deadline to ratify the ERA and clear the way for its final inclusion in the Constitution.
“We know that our Constitution was not drafted with all the people in mind. What day will be the day that we right this wrong?”As the end of the year and the end of Congress’s lame duck session approaches, congressional leaders and women’s rights advocates are calling on the Senate to vote to list the time limit in the preamble of the, thus officially recognizing the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.
The House had previously passed H.J. Res. 17 to remove the arbitrary time limit on the Amendment’s ratification in March of last year, with bipartisan support. The Senate resolution also has support on both sides of the aisle, though a vote on the floor has yet to be scheduled. , and other rising threats to women’s equality:
There has been a long line of women, including and often led by Black women activists, who have been fighting for the passage of the ERA. So I’m bringing their names up right now. Like Pauli Murray and Barbara Jordan, Flo Kennedy, Shirley Chisholm. And it is my great honor, my greatest wish to be among that list. We are for the Equal Rights Amendment. We’re for it now.
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