Category: ERA

By Karen Cross, Political Director Editor’s note. This appeared in the May issue of National Right to Life News. Please share this—and any other stories you enjoy—with your pro-life family and friends. If you have any questions or comments, my email is [email protected] In their latest display of abortion advocacy, Senate Democrats forced a losing Senate …

WASHINGTON (April 27, 2023) – A measure pretending to revive the long-expired Equal Rights Amendment failed today in the U.S. Senate, falling 9 votes short of the level of support necessary to allow it to advance to the House of Representatives, where it would have died anyway. The vote to advance S.J. Res. 4 was …

WASHINGTON (April 24, 2023) – The U.S. Senate will conduct a cloture vote on Thursday, April 27, on a measure (S.J. Res. 4) that purports to make the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment a part of the U.S. Constitution. “The anticipated Senate vote on the ERA measure, which will fail, is an exercise in political performance …

Editor’s note.  This appeared on page six of the April edition of National Right to Life News. Please share this and all the other fine stories with your pro-life friends and family. WASHINGTON (April 3, 2023) – A U.S. Senate showdown on S.J. Res. 4, a measure that purports to make the pro-abortion 1972 Equal Rights …

WASHINGTON (March 28, 2023) – Congresswomen Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and others are today announcing new gimmicks to try to perpetrate the urban legend that the long-expired 1972 Equal Rights Amendment is still eligible to become part of the Constitution. Bush and Pressley said that they will hold a press conference today, at …

By Karen Cross, Political Director National Right to Life has opposed the 1972 ERA language for decades, recognizing that the ERA language proposed by Congress in 1972 could be construed to invalidate virtually all limitations on abortion, and to require government funding of abortion. This opposition was the major reason why an attempt to restart …

WASHINGTON (Feb. 27, 2023) – U.S. Senate Democrats this week are launching a political show starring the ghost of the failed Equal Rights Amendment – disregarding 41 years of federal court rulings recognizing that the 1972 proposal expired decades ago. On Tuesday, February 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing, “The Equal Rights …

WASHINGTON (Feb. 27, 2023) – U.S. Senate Democrats this week are launching a political show starring the ghost of the failed Equal Rights Amendment – disregarding 41 years of federal court rulings recognizing that the 1972 proposal expired decades ago. On Tuesday, February 28, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing, “The Equal Rights …

WASHINGTON (Sept. 27, 2022)— During the days, weeks, and months immediately ahead, the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment will take on the appearance of life — a constitutional apparition, long expired, yet engendering activity in all three branches of the federal government. This high-stakes political theater demands close critical scrutiny, which so far has been largely absent …

NRLC’s Douglas Johnson in @NewYorkSun on demands that “Biden phone the Archivist…and order her to ignore Judge Contreras’ ruling and simply certify the ERA…an attempt to roll over judicial rulings and constitutional guardrails that stand in their way.”https://t.co/VLv3DH3vRk — ERA_No_Shortcuts (@ERANoShortcuts) September 7, 2022

Dear Member of Congress: The House of Representatives may soon vote on H. Res. 891, introduced by Rep. Jackie Speier, “expressing the sense of the House of Representatives” that the Equal Rights Amendment is now part of the U.S. Constitution. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) strongly opposes adoption of H. Res. 891. Moreover, …

WASHINGTON (February 18, 2022)– The Commonwealth of Virginia today withdrew from a federal appeal seeking to force the Archivist of the U.S. to certify the ERA as part of the Constitution. In a motion submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals to the D.C. Circuit, Virginia Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson said that Virginia now believes …