VA’s gonna need a lot of guillotines in the near future.
Hopefully, the revolutionary guard will sell tickets.
They’ll make millions.
The DOJ is correct and is simply enforcing a federal district court decision in NOW v. Idaho that declared the ratification window for the ERA expired in March 1979. Appeals to higher courts and the Supreme Court failed decades ago.
To revive the ERA, the Supreme Court would have to reverse its 1921 decision in Dillon v. Gloss and modify its 1939 decision in Coleman v. Miller. These two decisions form the backbone of the relationship between Congress and the amendatory process under Article V. Changing these decisions would throw the amendatory process into constitutional chaos, which is why the federal courts won't touch a Virginia-initiated suit with a 10-foot pole.
What is the thinking here? Men don’t pay to terminate their own pregnancy? And therefore women shouldn’t pay to terminate theirs?
I don’t really see the Equal Right aspect.
They never consider that a few states rescinded their ratifications of the equal rights amendment during the original time period for ratifications.
To say that Virginia would be the 38th state to ratify, ignores both the deadline and the rescinded ratifications.
You can’t ratify something that is already null and void.
"The ERA would amend the U.S. Constitution to guarantee equal rights for all born [??? emphasis added] citizens no matter what their sex is."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
“Born citizens” deliberately wrongly ignores male and female unborn persons imo.
Note that there is nothing stopping any state from defining personhood as beginning at conception imo, strengthening 14th Amendment basic right-to-life protections for unborn persons by doing so imo.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States ; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law [emphasis added]; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
The bottom line is that we don’t need constitutional equality protections for sex beyond 19th Amendment voting rights protections imo.
"19th Amendment:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
Corrections, insights welcome.
Remember in November!
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Tax money wasted... leftists are great at this...
Virginia voted in the Democrats, hope they’re enjoying the results. Today’s Democratic Party is something even people like George McGovern would consider to be crazy-left.
A woman can decide to kill her unborn child against the wishes of the father because it’s “her body”. Yet if she decides to give birth, she can demand the father pay child support.
Yeah, equal rights. Makes sense.
These LOSERS don’t pay ONE PENNY for men’s abortions, so why pay one penny for women’s?
In other words, ‘most’ women will not only pay for their abortions (hopefully) but by paying taxes will also be paying for others abortion, not just their own.
Does that sound about right?