Equal Rights Amendment: Congress Won’t Bring It Back

Shortly before Congress skipped town for its spring break, Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski spoke at a briefing sponsored by advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment. “For those staff who are on this briefing, your mission is to go out and talk to your bosses,” Murkowski said. “If your boss is a man, ask him if he wants his wife, his daughters, his mother to be protected by the Constitution.”

The Equal Rights Amendment, which Congress sent to the states for ratification in 1972, 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.”

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John McCormack

John McCormack is a former Washington correspondent for National Review and was a fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Shortly before Congress skipped town for its spring break, Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski spoke at a briefing sponsored by advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment. “For those staff who are on this briefing, your mission is to go out and talk to your bosses,” Murkowski said. “If your boss is a man, ask him if he wants his wife, his daughters, his mother to be protected by the Constitution.”

The Equal Rights Amendment, which Congress sent to the states for ratification in 1972, 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.”