Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) “is on a mission in President Biden’s final days in office. She wants to convince him that he can rescue his legacy by adding the century-old Equal Rights Amendment, which would explicitly guarantee sex equality, to the Constitution as a way to protect abortion rights in post-Roe America,” the New York Times reports. “He could do it all, she contends, with one phone call.” “Both houses of Congress approved the amendment in 1972, but it was not ratified by the states in time to be added to the Constitution.