“The Equal Rights Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with abortion,” insisted Representative Carolyn Maloney (D., N.Y.) in an April 2019 Judiciary Committee hearing. Maloney has been the ERA’s primary House sponsor for the past 25 years. Methinks, however, that the representative doth protest way too much. The ERA-abortion connection had already been established for more than 40 years when Maloney tried to deny it.