Today at Ms. | October 22, 2021


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House Committee Holds Historic Hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment [[link removed]]

BY RACHEL GREENBERG and KAYCIE GORAL | This month marks the the 50th anniversary of the Equal Rights Amendment’s first passage in the House of Representatives. On Thursday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held a historic hearing about the amendment to examine the final steps necessary to certify.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who chairs the committee, began the hearing outlining how the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has met all requirements for the adoption of a United States constitutional amendment. First proposed in 1923, the ERA was eventually ratified by two-thirds of both houses of Congress and by three-fourths of the states—or 38 states. The final hurdle that remains: certification by the national archivist and publication as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Supreme Court Refuses to Block Texas Abortion Ban, Agrees to Hear Two Cases Challenging the Law [[link removed]]

BY CARRIE BAKER | On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases challenging a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks, but refused to block the law while it considers the case—leaving Texans without access to safe, legal abortion health care. The Court set oral arguments for the cases on November 1.

“For the second time, the Court declines to act immediately to protect these women from grave and irreparable harm,” Justice Sotomayor wrote a searing dissent to the Court’s refusal to enjoin the law.

CRT for K-12: Feminists Team Up to Create a Curriculum on Critical Race Theory for Students of All Ages [[link removed]]

BY CARRIE N. BAKER and LISA COVINGTON | If the critical race theory panic teaches us anything, it’s that Americans need more, not less education about how race and gender shape our lives, institutions and opportunities in the U.S. That’s why feminist scholars have teamed up to produce a new curriculum on critical race theory for use in grade schools.

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