.Alyssa_Milano: Passing the The Equal Rights Amendment means America would live up to the first three words of our Constitution: “we the people.” Not we the men.
. While I strongly believe no congressional action is required — President Joe Biden simply needs to direct the nation's archivist to publish the already-ratified ERA to make it part of the Constitution — this hearing is incredibly important in the effort to achieve basic constitutional equality for more than half of the American population.
Since the earliest days of our nation, women have fought for inclusion in our founding document. Abigail Adams admonished her husband, John Adams, tofrom Shirley Chisholm and Gloria Steinem to the inspiring young women, queer activists and allies of the new millennium, we have pleaded for centuries for a simple and powerful thing: equality under the law. The weight of that history alone demands the adoption of the ERA.This isn’t just a national issue. It’s personal, to every single one of us.
If there is one word which defines the American identity, it’s freedom. We call our president the leader of the free world. We present ourselves to other nations as advocates for freedom. But how can we be a free people when our governing document does not prohibit discrimination against more than half of our population? The answer, of course, is that we cannot.The lack of constitutional protections for anyone who is not a man is a blemish on the very idea of Americanism.
Every single time the ERA comes up for discussion, some man asks the bad-faith question, “What rights do American men have that American women don’t?” That query doesn’t matter, because it misses the point of the ERA. There are, of course, many current gender-driven injustices in this country, including pay and promotion disparity, military sexual abuse and harassment, equal access to health care and so on.
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