ERA

WOW! Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney is at it again. She is circulating a Dear Colleague letter on July 6th, 2009, inviting co-sponsorship of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). This Amendment is sometimes referred to, as the Woman's Equality Amendment. This ERA Resolution would add to the US Constitution the following, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged, by the United States, or by any State on account of sex. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by  appropriate legislation, the provisions of this Article.  This Amendment shall take effect two years after the ratification." 

WOW!  I remember this in 1972, the hero for Illinois was former Governor George Ryan, who stopped ERA from passing, in the Illinois General Assembly.

Leading pro-abortion groups have strongly urged state courts, to construe state ERAs, to require tax-funded abortion on demand and state ERAs, have been so construed, in New Mexico and Connecticut.  

There are a lot of things wrong with the ERA. Our particular focus is on the abortion connection. ERA would invalidate any law that allows a parental consent or notice law, prior to abortion and would require tax-funded abortion on demand. Once a court adopts the legal doctrine, that a law testing abortions, is by definition a form of discrimination based on sex, as the ERA does, the same doctrine, would invalidate any limits on abortion. The remedy - an abortion neutral amendment. An abortion neutral amendment has failed since 1983. My guess is, it will fail again in 2009.

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