WASHINGTON — Today, the League of Women Voters of the United States and more than 140 nonprofit organizations leading in women's, reproductive, LGBTQIA+, civil, and human rights sent a letter to President Biden calling for immediate action to add the duly ratified Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the US Constitution by instructing the US Archivist to certify and publish it.
Representing a broad spectrum of advocacy groups focused on law, gender equality, civil rights, and social justice, the groups emphasized the critical need for the constitutional protection of the equality of rights under the law regardless of sex and gender.
The letter highlights decades of advocacy for the ERA, which was passed by Congress in 1972 and ratified by the required 38 states as of 2020. Despite this, procedural hurdles and political roadblocks have been utilized to prevent the amendment from being officially recognized as part of the Constitution.
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