Schumer: The Equal Rights Amendment Would Protect Abortion, by John Hirschauer

On Thursday, Senate Democrats failed to break a Republican filibuster of a bill that would have extended the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment. Of course, the idea that Congress can “extend” a ratification deadline on a constitutional amendment is absurd. The ratification measure that thirty-five states voted to approve had a 1979 deadline. To change the deadline would be to change the measure.

The Equal Rights Amendment, which would ensure “equality of rights under the law” is not denied on the basis of sex, is a Trojan horse to eliminate single-sex spaces, enroll women in the draft, and, most importantly for progressives, legalize abortion. …

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