Rep. Ayanna Pressley, sponsor of the U.S. House resolution that could add ERA to the constitution, said she is tired of women being subjected to second-class legal status. “It’s long past time the constitution affirm our equality in the eyes of the law.”
The concept of the Equal Rights Amendment has been around for a century, but it's getting a renewed push of momentum in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the federal right to abortion.
On a practical level, advocates said the ERA would enshrine the rights of women and LBGTQ individuals in the constitution. While laws that extend protections can be overturned at the whims of Congress, it’s harder to diminish a constitutional right. Thirty-eight states have ratified the ERA, enough for it to effectively to be considered passed and ratified. But some states did so only recently. Illinois was the penultimate state to do so, in 2018 — decades past the deadline set by Congress when it first laid out the parameters for the ERA for states to achieve ratification.But advocates aren't giving up.
“That was almost 50 years ago,” Durbin said. “They say to be a legislator you have to be patient, but this is ridiculous. It’s time for us to get the job done.”
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