Mon Feb 21, 2022 – 11:52 am EST
RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — Virginia’s Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares has formally withdrawn the commonwealth from a lawsuit seeking to revive the long-dormant effort to ratify the so-called Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution, an infamous effort to give judicial activists new tools with which to protect abortion-on-demand.
Originally proposed and defeated decades ago, the ERA states that “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” But conservatives argue that if implemented, this seemingly-simple yet redundant language would be interpreted as codifying into law non-rights such as abortion and have broad ramifications on everything from the military draft and sex-segregated prisons to women-only restrooms and male-only clergy.
In 2020, Virginia’s previous Attorney General, Democrat Mark Herring, joined his counterparts in Illinois and Nevada in filing a federal lawsuit to demand ratification of the ERA, but the Trump Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion declaring their efforts invalid, because the deadlines from its original introduction have long since expired, and that any legitimate effort to ratify it would
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