Pushing for Equal Rights Amendment
Daily Hampshire Gazette: ‘There are no assumed rights’: Push for passage of ERA gains momentum once again
… “It is easy to hear the argument that there are now federal and state laws that protect against gender and sex discrimination and that a Constitutional amendment is not as needed as it once was,” LaChapelle said. “Clearly, over the last four years, we are all learning that there are no assumed rights. We cannot assume Roe v. Wade will stand. We can’t assume that the Lilly Ledbetter (Fair Pay) Act will stand.”
Rights determined through Roe, which allowed women in the U.S. to access legal and safe abortions, and through the Fair Pay Act, which expanded women workers’ rights to sue in cases of pay inequity, need to be codified into the Constitution to make them undeniable, LaChapelle said.
She added that women’s reproductive rights, pay equity and protection from domestic violence are standing on “shifting sands.” …