85% of UN Member States in the world have constitutions that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex and/or gender. The United States is not one of them.
By rightfully framing access to reproductive healthcare, including access to legal abortion, as fundamental to ensuring gender equality and preventing sex discrimination, the Equal Rights Amendment would directly impact the way SCOTUS decides abortion-related and other reproductive rights cases, based on equality rather than privacy, and what federal laws Congress is encouraged to, and discouraged from, passing.
As part of our I Need the ERA because… campaign, launched to mark Women’s Equality Day 2022, we take a closer look at how the ERA would help move the needle on four crucial issues for women and girls, including access to abortion.
It is estimated by Unchained at Last that about 300,000 children were married in the United States between 2000 and 2018, the…
