Under the heading of “What Goes Around, Comes Around,” I give you the Equal Rights Amendment. Even before Virginia ratified it late last year, reaching the required 38 states for adoption, conservative administrations in Alabama, Louisiana and South Dakota filed suit to keep it out of the U.S. Constitution. Whereupon three other states – Virginia, Illinois and Nevada – filed suit to compel its inclusion. All of this raises a fundamental question: In the 90 years since activist and suffragist Alice Paul first proposed the ERA – which bans discrimination on the basis of sex – how far have we really come? Thirty-five states ratified the amendment in 1977, but it took until 2017 and 2018, respectively, for Nevada and Illinois to act – well past the 1982 deadline imposed by Congress.
Comment on Nation’s past foreshadows current E.R.A. push
Northwest Herald, Northwest Herald
Mon, 02/10/2020 - 8:40am
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