Tomorrow, Virginia is expected to pass full floor votes on ERA bills in both chambers of the House and Senate – HJ1 and SJ1, respectively. The bills are then anticipated to favorably crossover chambers, thus successfully achieving the ratification of the ERA by the 38th and final state necessary! This will further push questions about Congressional and legal action into the national conversation. To watch history being made live: Virginia House Live Stream: https://virginiageneralassembly.gov/house/chamber/chamberstream.phpVirginia Senate Live Stream: http://virginia-senate.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3
2020 is indeed the year of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in a historic mergence with the observance of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment declaring a woman’s right to vote.
As Virginia is expected to become the critical 38th state to ratify the ERA, we urgently move closer to the ERA becoming the 28th amendment to the US Constitution: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
But, you can bet there will be a 39th state, and a 40th, and a 41st state…
In fact, every remaining unratified state must step up and testify to the basic moral principle that no person in any corner of our country should ever have their rights compromised on account of sex.
North Carolina will lead this time and ratify too, not wait 50 more years and be almost dead last as it was with voting rights for women. Although women gained the vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment, North Carolina failed to do the right thing and didn’t ratify it until 1971, ahead only of Mississippi.
We will not stand for that.
Get ready to make history too, North Carolina. March for the ERA in your local Women’s Marches in January and help ratify the ERA in our state!
More about locations, dates, and times of the Women’s Marches can be find in our current newsletter: http://bit.do/Major-ERA-Developments-Womens-Marches
