ERA in the News: AUG 10 - 23, 2024

NATIONAL

Aug. 8 Whose Vision of America Will Voters Choose? - Dame Magazine "And when I imagine the historic moment our votes can create, I don’t see the culmination of a campaign; I see the beginning of a new era." Dame

Aug. 14 Suffs and Women’s Activism, Past and Present | League of Women Voters "Alice Paul knew it, and we do, too: inequality hurts everyone. Let’s not let another century pass before making sex-based equality the law of the land!" League of Women Voters

Aug. 15 Equal Rights Amendment Is Valid and Should Be Implemented, Says American Bar Association - Ms. Magazine "At the annual meeting of the American Bar Association in Chicago on Aug. 6, the association’s House of Delegates adopted a resolution declaring the Equal Rights Amendment fully ratified as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." Ms. Magazine

Aug. 19 Why America Needs to Ratify the ERA Now “Under the ERA, prohibiting someone’s right to reproductive healthcare would be gender discrimination, rendering prohibitions against abortion access — like the 1864 law anti-choice advocates have recently been trying to revive in Arizona — unconstitutional.” Rolling Stone