Bipartisan Bonanza
Ordinary Equality
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🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Follow us on Twitter at @OrdEquality for everything you need to know about the ERA as we watch history in the making.
Special thanks to Equality Now, an international human rights organization that works to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world. To learn more about what you can do to support the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, check out www.equalitynow.org/era.
To dive deeper into some of the topics discussed in this episode, check out:
- “Illinois Approves Equal Rights Amendment, 36 Years After Deadline” (Rick Pearson, Bill Lukitsch * Chicago Tribune * 2018)
- “Virginia Ratifies the Equal Right Amendment, Decades After The Deadline” (Bill Chapel * NPR * 2020)
- “Danica Roem is Virginia’s First Transgender Elected Official. Here’s What She Wants to Accomplish” (Alana Abramson * Time * 2017)
- It’s Time to Finally Pass the Equal Rights Amendment (Ben Cardin, Lisa Murkowski * Washington Post * 2019)
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| 0:00.0 | You know, my mother, the last time that she voted for a Democrat for president was 1976, |
| 0:04.7 | and this is a direct quote. That was a mistake, as she put it. My Fox News watching Republican |
| 0:10.7 | vote in Ma, not necessarily the person who you would have expected to have owned a necklace |
| 0:16.7 | with a ERA medallion on it that was made by Tony Carabillo in 1976, who as a lesbian |
| 0:25.5 | feminist was not exactly the, we'll just go with the face of Republican politics. And at the same |
| 0:31.8 | time, I think that it really speaks to the cross-section of women across the country who know that we need to have this done so that their daughters and every other person who ever comes after them have full equality of rights under the law within the Constitution of the United States. |
| 1:09.5 | You must remember that when the Constitution was written, that women were regarded as property. |
| 1:17.6 | The struggle for an equal rights amendment traces back to 1923 when feminist Alice Paul wrote the words that became ERA. |
| 1:20.2 | Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or bridged by the United States or any |
| 1:26.3 | state on account of sex. |
| 1:28.3 | So as we warned today, remember, forward together, backward, never. |
| 1:34.3 | If you could change one thing about the Constitution, what would it be? |
| 1:38.3 | I would add an equal rights amendment. |
| 1:41.3 | Can you make a good right? Do we want us? Equal Rights Amendment. Who does that? EO.A. |
| 1:45.0 | When do we want us? |
| 1:47.0 | No! |
| 1:48.0 | Today, the House of Representatives cleared a hurdle |
| 1:50.0 | to make the Equal Rights Amendment |
| 1:52.0 | the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. |
| 1:54.0 | The House voted to remove a deadline for states |
| 1:56.0 | to ratify the amendment, which would guarantee |
| 1:58.0 | women the same legal rights as men. |
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