[[link removed]] Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
December 14, 2022
From the ongoing fight for abortion rights and access, to elections, to the drive for the Equal Rights Amendment, there are a multitude of battles to keep up with. In this weekly roundup, find the absolute need-to-know news for feminists.
Congressional Leaders and Advocates Call on Senate to Clear the Way for the ERA [[link removed]]
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Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.). (Chrisi West / ERA Coalition)
BY OLIVER C. HAUG | As the end of the year and the end of Congress’s lame duck session approaches, congressional leaders and women’s rights advocates are calling on the Senate to vote to list the time limit in the preamble of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), thus officially recognizing the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The ERA has met the only two requirements set out in the Constitution for Amendments: adoption by two-thirds of Congress (in 1972), and ratification by three-quarters (or 38) of the states.
Along with Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), women’s rights leaders and other members of Congress gathered at the House Triangle in Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning to call on the Senate to vote on S.J. Res 1 [[link removed]] . If passed, the resolution would remove the deadline to ratify the ERA, and clear the way for its final inclusion in the Constitution.
Maloney emphasized President Biden’s support for the ERA, and his request that Congress act on it. “[The ERA] would empower Congress to better enforce laws protecting women,” Maloney said. “And as we see the constant effort to whittle away at rights for women, everything from choice, they are bulldozing our rights into the ground. [The ERA] would place gender equality in the Constitution, like [many other] countries of the world.”
The House had previously passed H.J. Res. 17 to remove the arbitrary time limit on the amendment’s ratification in March of last year, with bipartisan support. The Senate resolution also has support on both sides of the aisle, though a vote on the floor has yet to be scheduled.
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Focusing on ‘Exceptions’ Misses the True Harm of Abortion Bans [[link removed]] The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: Why Policy Experts and Healthcare Providers Agree It’s Time for Congress to Act [[link removed]]
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‘Journey for Justice’: Immigrants and Advocates Begin 2,200-Mile Pilgrimage Across U.S.-Mexico Border [[link removed]] Amid Pandemic Learning Loss, There’s an Urgent Need to Bring Parents and Teachers Together [[link removed]]
What we're reading
Because it's hard to keep up with everything going on in the world right now. Here's what we're reading this week:
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on Apple Podcasts [[link removed]] + Spotify [[link removed]] .
Before Roe v. Wade , if you were in need of an abortion in Chicago, there was a number you could call, run by young women who called themselves Jane. They’d provide abortions to women who had nowhere else to turn. It was started by Heather Booth when she was 19 years old. In this episode, Booth joins Dr. Goodwin to discuss the history of the Jane Collective and the connections between our pre-Roe past and post-Roe future. Where do we go from here?
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