NEW CHANCE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS: Speaker Pelosi and Dem lawmakers are speaking out for the Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
The ERA is a constitutional amendment to ban discrimination based on sex. It's been in the works for nearly 50 years. The deadline to ratify it expired in 1982 when only 35 of the 38 necessary states had passed it.
Now that Virginia has become the 38th state, Pelosi and others are trying to extend the deadline. The ERA would provide a legal defense against a potential rollback of Roe v. Wade, as well as guarantee a federal judicial standard for sex discrimination cases.
