By Emma Waters, CNSNews, Feb. 28, 2023
Courtesy of the Daily Signal. (Originally titled: “Want to Protect Life? Oppose Revival of The Equal Rights Amendment”).
Like the resilient undead, the Equal Rights Amendment is back. This time, the ERA has emerged from its grave in the form of a joint House and Senate resolution to remove the expiration date on the constitutional amendment. (Yes, the one that already expired in 1982.)
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold its first hearing Tuesday on scrapping the ERA’s expiration date.
So, why bring back the ERA now? The answer is simple. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, the justices certified that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t provide a right to abortion. …