Virginia Democrats, who now control both chambers of the legislature as well as the governor's mansion, are pushing forward with their efforts to make the commonwealth the 38th -- and potentially final -- state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment
State Democrats, who now control both chambers of the legislature as well as the governor's mansion, are pushing forward with their efforts to make the commonwealth the 38th -- and potentially final -- state to ratify the amendment.But opponents, who claim the ERA will pave the way for greater abortion access and say equal-rights protections for women have already been enshrined at federal and state levels, have vowed to block the national ratification effort.
The fight for women's rights 02:25First proposed by suffragist Alice Paul, the ERA, then known as the"Lucretia Mott Amendment," was first introduced to Congress in 1923, but the effort to pass it -- which requires the approval of three-fourths of states, or 38, to be added to the Constitution -- didn't gain real traction until the women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
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