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Equality enthusiast 🟰 Book @ordequality 📕 Board @AlicePaulInstit 📜 Senior Director @CAPWomen. @RepCori Alum. All opinions are my own.
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Jan 17 9 tweets 3 min read
I’m seeing a lot of confusion about the Equal Rights Amendment online.

I've been working on the ERA for 13 years & literally wrote a book about it.

So, let me help answer some questions.

1) Yes, it really is a real amendment & fully part of the U.S. Constitution. Full stop. Image The ERA has actually BEEN an amendment for 5 years.

There are only 2 requirements of Article V to become an amendment:

1) Pass by 2/3rds in each house of Congress. March 22, 1972 ✅

2) Ratified by 3/4ths of states (38). Jan 27th, 2020 in VA ✅

cnn.com/2020/01/27/pol…
Oct 30, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
Anthony Comstock was so obsessed with abortion providers, he drove one to suicide with relentless harassment.

It’s his law—from 1873—that Trump wants to use to ban abortion nationwide.

This way he can bypass Congress altogether.

Via @CourierNewsroom

keystonenewsroom.com/opinion/opinio… Really all you need to know to tell this really is their nefarious plan is that Trump’s lawyer, Jonathan F. Mitchell, a key architect of Project 2025 & virulent anti-abortion crusader, said point-blank:

“We don’t need a federal ban when we have Comstock on the books.”

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Sep 25, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
Reminder—white women are NOT “voting against their own interests.”

They’ve made the same effective political calculation for decades.

They look around & see who has power (almost exclusively white men) & want to stay power-adjacent.

It’s sick, but it’s not stupid. What IS stupid is to perpetually be in a state of confusion (every👏🏼single 👏🏼election) about why women’s history DOES NOT coincide w progressive politics/ why the rise of feminism hasn’t automatically spirited the majority of WW away from race loyalty & man worship.
Sep 30, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Hello everyone 👋🏼

The Cannon House Office building & the U.S. Capitol are not the same building.

If there was a plan was to delay voting (which takes place in the Capitol)— pulling a fire alarm in Cannon would in no way impede that.

This dumb conspiracy makes no sense.
Image @eastbank_dc Lol there is no staffer in the security footage pic. Sometimes members genuinely get lost w/out staff. Maybe it was just easier to go the above-ground route 🤣
Jan 6, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
In Sweden 92% of abortions are pill abortions 💊💊 83% in Scotland.

In the U.S. they already account for over 1/2 (& that stat doesn’t account for at-home abortions).

It’s possible to get to a point where the VAST majority of abortions here are via medication that we can ship. We’ll ALWAYS need clinics.

Some don’t find out they are pregnant until they are too far along to use abortion pills.

Some don’t discover catastrophic fetal anomalies until much later in pregnancy.

Clinics are a must—but we can get to a point where pills are by far most common.
Jan 4, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
CANNOT overstate what a HUGE & completely game-changing decision this is!

You can now pick up abortion pills at your local CVS like any other medication 💊💊

ABORTION PILLS FOREVERRRRRR!

nytimes.com/2023/01/03/hea… Until now, mifepristone (the 1st pill used in most medication abortions) could be dispensed only by a few mail-order pharmacies or by certified doctors/clinics.

Now—patients w a prescription can pick mife & misoprostol up at any pharmacy (that agree to a certain set of rules).
Nov 9, 2022 20 tweets 6 min read
White women are not "voting against their own interests."

They're making an astute political calculation that they have made successfully for decades.

They look around. They see who has power (almost exclusively white men). They side w power.

It's sick, but it's not stupid. What IS stupid is to perpetually be in a state of confusion (every, single election) about why women's history DOES NOT coincide w progressive politics/ why the rise of feminism hasn't automatically spirited the majority of WW away from race loyalty & man worship.