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@ResistersInfo @Androphillia @afsc_org @CCW4COs @WomensAction As the @NationalNOW argued, "Congress’s decision to exclude women from the male-only registration requirement denies women a key aspect of their citizenship. To reap equal rewards of citizenship, women must equally bear its burdens" (supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/2…, p. 4).

@ResistersInfo @Androphillia @afsc_org @CCW4COs @WomensAction @NationalNOW The National Organization for Women (@NationalNOW) knows the cost of passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (#ERA) is women being subject to the draft, which is why NOW wrote the amicus curiae brief cited and has fought for women’s inclusion in the draft.

Are you against the ERA?

Adding the Ervin Amendment (that exempted women from the draft) lead to the 1970 Senate defeat of the ERA. See, Mariclaire Hale and Leo Kanowitz, Women and the Draft: A Response to Critics of the Equal Rights Amendment, 23 Hastings L.J. 199, 200 (1971).
(repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_law_j…).

“ERA proponents insist… the principle of equal treatment under the law embodied in the… amendment requires …not only… accord[ing] equal rights and privileges but also …be[ing] subject[] to the same responsibilities, burdens, and duties of citizenship.” 23 Hastings L.J. 200.

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