WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. House voted 222 to 204 today to revive the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), via a Democrat measure “that seeks to remove an expired deadline for the ERA,” as the Wall Street Journal put it.
As written, the ERA would enshrine a so-called “right” to abortion on demand in the United States Constitution. On Monday, the Susan B. Anthony List announced that votes on this legislation will be scored and double-weighted in each member’s profile on its National Pro-life Scorecard.
In January 2020, the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel published a decisive opinion stating that the 1972 ERA has expired and that new efforts to ratify it would be considered null and void. Just weeks ago, an Obama-appointed federal district judge concurred that recent attempts to ratify the ERA by Nevada (2017), Illinois (2018), and Virginia (2020) have no legal effect and do not count towards the required three-fourths states needed to ratify the constitutional amendment.
Congressman Chris Smith quotes @NARAL‘s own words making it clear the #ERA would “reinforce the constitutional right to abortion and require judges to strike down anti-abortion laws”
The so-called #EqualRightsAmendment isn’t about equality. It’s about abortion. pic.twitter.com/sGnblwZZ0N
— Susan B. Anthony List (@SBAList) March 16,
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