Era Constitution News Today

For the past few years, Democrats have been trying to resurrect the Equal Rights Amendment, a constitutional amendment proposed to the states in the 1970s that failed to win enough support to be ratified. Its deadline for ratification has long since passed — 1982 was the official cutoff date — but the Left is determined to bring it back to life as a means of unilaterally imposing its agenda on the public.

Even today, nothing in our Constitution guarantees equal rights regardless of your sex. Now the fight to add the ERA to the Constitution is taking on a new momentum, building off the roots of the 1970s progressive womens movement that took place right here in Houston. In the early 1970s the womens movement seemed unstoppable. "Energy was so high? It was just amazing. Just absolutely amazing. We felt we could conquer the world," said Dr. Nancy Joyner, former vice president of the American Associ...