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Democrats duplicitous in their support of Equal Rights Amendment
Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights demands action
by Biden Administration Archivist to Publish the ERA
This weekend, Democrats are gathering in Seneca Falls, New York, to virtue-signal to the U.S. electorate in its supposed support for the Equal Rights Amendment, while their President continues to fail to direct his Administration to publish the Amendment. The ERA achieved final ratification in January 2020 and enjoys the support of 75% to 94% of the public, while 80% would be surprised to learn it is not already enforceable. The inaction of the Biden Administration has created a Constitutional Crisis, and is evidence of President Biden’s failure in his Constitutional duty to see that the laws of the nation are faithfully executed.
“The women of this nation do not need photo ops, electioneering, or grandstanding from Democrats,” said Romi Elnagar of Louisiana, a co-chair of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights. The Green Alliance last year published a petition urging President Biden to instruct the National Archivist to publish the ERA. “Women need urgent action to acknowledge that we have already amended the Constitution to guarantee us first class citizenship and the strict scrutiny of the Courts for the many de jure and de facto forms of discrimination which remain legally binding.”
Meanwhile, U.S. Representative Corey Bush (D, MO) on July 14th introduced HJRes-82 which encouragingly acknowledges the history of the ERA’s ratification, including addressing the legal nullity of a state’s rescission of an action to ratify. Even so, her language backed off the statutory requirements that the Archivist ‘shall’ publish a ratified amendment (as the duty is framed in Title 1 US Code Section 106b). The Bush resolution uses the word ‘should’ in its operative language, encouraging rather than directing the National Archivist to do her job.
News this past week revealed the June 16th letter signed by 19 Attorneys General to demand the legal authority to obtain a woman's confidential health care records related to out-of-state abortions in violation of her privacy rights. The comments of the Republican AGs on the HHS rulemaking relied heavily on the decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. “Lynn Fitch’s letter highlights the risks posed to women’s lives and liberties by the decades of inaction by Democrats who have treated women’s rights and concerns as election issues for raising dollars and volunteers, rather than as a governing priority,” said Ms. Elnagar. “Their actions are reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act and our nation’s history of treating humans as chattel property. It is highly unlikely that the Supreme Court could have been so contemptuous and dismissive of women’s bodily integrity had the ERA already been recognized as a part of the U.S. Constitution.”
The Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights is a pro-feminist, gender critical, women-led membership organization, independent of corporate parties and influence, seeking to engage in elections and other political activities.
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Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights urges
President Biden to Instruct Archivist to Publish the ERA
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/take_action/Tell_President_Biden--Pick_up_the_Phone--Publish_the_ERA
H.J.Res 82, Expressing the sense of Congress that the article of amendment commonly known as the "Equal Rights Amendment" has been validly ratified and is enforceable as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment
https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hjres82/BILLS-118hjres82ih.pdf
19 States Attorneys General. “Comments opposing the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed rule, HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy." Letter to Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Re: RIN Number 0945–AA20, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, HIPAA Privacy Rule To Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy, 88 Fed. Reg. 23506 (Apr. 17, 2023)
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/657773029-Mississippi-AG-opposes-reproductive-care-privacy-rule.pdf
Archived locally at:
https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/system/files/book/resources/2023-07/20230616--Comment_Letter_of_the_Mississippi_Attorney_General_et_al--as_filed.pdf
Lynn Goldstein and Marty Abrams. “The Overturning of Roe v. Wade Undermines the Right to Privacy.” [2022]
https://informationaccountability.org/2022/06/the-overturning-of-roe-v-wade-undermines-the-right-to-privacy/