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Report. >> opponents in the senate called it the unisex amendment and said it would destroy traditional man-women relationships, increase homosexuality, violate biblical teachings and undermine thousands of state laws designed to protect women against life's hazards. >> despite all that fear and trembling, 1972 was an election year and then as now, more women than men vote and the e.r.a. won senate approval and was on its way to ratification. for a while it seemed to have momentum. 30 of the required 38 states had ratified the proposal by 1973. but then the tide turned as a highly organized an...