This is an urgent message, John.

We need the ERA now more than ever. The reversal of Roe v. Wade took away the right to privacy as well as undermined the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment for sex discrimination. We must take action now.

Join us in urging the Senate to take a vote to remove the timeline in the preamble of the ERA before the end of this session. The House has twice voted to remove the timeline, but the Senate has not yet taken action.

Tell your senators that the Senate must take a roll call vote on the motion to either end the debate and prevent a filibuster or, hopefully, to vote to remove the timeline itself. It is long overdue for the Senate to take a roll call vote and to expose those Senators who are blocking consideration of the ERA.

President Biden has called on Congress to take action on the ERA. Tell your senators to take action and demand a floor vote on removing the timeline from the preamble of the ERA (H.J.Res. 17).

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26 states have or are expected to initiate restrictions or outright bans against abortion rights. Others have tried to curb LGBTQI rights. It is a disgrace that sex discrimination is not prohibited in the U.S. Constitution. Over 75% of the likely voters, and in some polls, over 80%, support the adoption of the ERA.

The midterm election results show that women are angry, especially young women, who demonstrated that they condition their vote on their legislature’s position on candidates’ abortion rights and women’s rights. Voters want to know for future elections where their members of Congress stand on the ERA and its guarantee in the wording of the ERA that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.”

The House has taken such a step; it is time for the Senate to act. Urge your senators to allow a floor vote on H.J.Res.17 to remove the timeline from the preamble of the ERA and to expose who is voting to filibuster it.

For equality,

Eleanor Smeal President