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We are so grateful for all the work that Eagle Forum chairman, Anne Schlafly Cori, Elise Bouc, Students for Life, and other volunteers did to present the TRUTH about the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.
We live in a very different world today than we lived in when we stopped the ERA before and it will require a new 'education' process to help people understand how destructive this Constitutional amendment would be.
We will certainly continue to keep an 'Eagle Eye' on the horizon to see what state will next take up the ERA.
The proposed amendment reads: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." |
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Wrong Side
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May 30, 2018
 Illinois voted on the wrong side of women's rights by voting for an amendment that will harm women and their unborn child. The language of our laws matter and the language of this poorly written, vague amendment will take away the ability to recognize essential biological differences between men and women.
As a result, laws, and policies that benefit women will be overturned and abortion rights will be entrenched in our Constitution. The public must wake up and see through the false statements of the supporters of the ERA. Women are already guaranteed equal rights through the equal protections guaranteed to all persons under the 14th amendment. The Supreme Court has already recognized and ruled favorably for women based on the 14th amendment. Women will receive no additional benefits from the ERA. Instead, they will see their rights and benefits taken away as they are forced to be treated exactly like men with no exceptions allowed.
Elise Bouc, ERA Chairman
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Equal Rights Amendment Battle Wages On In Illinois
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Anne Schlafly Cori and Elise Bouc at the State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois lobbying to #StopERA
"There's still today countless common sense laws that we have that distinguish differences between men and women. For example - do we really want to put our prison populations together with men and women," Schlafly Cori told NPR Illinois during an interview at the capitol.
By RACHEL OTWELL • MAY 8, 2018
NOTE: Go to the site and you can listen to the GREAT interview with Anne Schlafly Cori.
A decades-long battle for state ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment is still waging on. On Tuesday, supporters traveled from different areas of the state to urge lawmakers to act.
The congressional deadline to pass the ERA was 1982. The amendment would add language to the U.S. Constitution saying rights should not be denied on account of sex. Democratic state Representative Lou Lang from Skokie has sponsored a resolution for ratification numerous times, including this year. He told those at Tuesday's rally, "We are going to bring equality not only to the women of Illinois but to the women of the United States of America."
The Senate passed the resolution last month but it hasn't yet reached a vote in the House.
Opponents include Anne Schlafly Cori of the Eagle Forum. Her mother Phyllis Schlafly successfully waged a "Stop ERA" campaign in the state in the seventies and eighties. "There's still today countless common sense laws that we have that distinguish differences between men and women. For example - do we really want to put our prison populations together with men and women," Schalfly Cori told NPR Illinois during an interview at the capitol.
On Monday a House committee meeting in Chicago took on the issue. The group Students for Life of America was there to oppose the idea. A statement from its president, Kristan Hawkins, reads in part: "Abortion advocates, like those working with the ACLU, have been very direct in arguing that the Equal Rights Amendment would further solidify abortion in the law and would potentially wipe out vital health and safety standards now on the books to protect women from a predatory abortion industry."
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The ERA would take away rights from women
April 16, 2018
The Illinois General Assembly would be foolish to try to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment 36 years after it failed. Congress set a time limit of seven years, and ERA failed to meet the legal requirement that ratification be contemporaneous. Plenty of other states would reject ERA if they voted on it today and five did rescind their ratification in the 1970s.
ERA is a poorly written amendment that would not put "women" in the Constitution; it would put "sex" in the Constitution. Sex has many definitions besides gender. Plus, ERA has a second clause, which your editorial did not mention, that requires the federal government to enforce the amendment. Hundreds of good state laws would be overturned - such as sex segregated prisons, women's shelters, and legal accommodations for pregnant women. ERA would mandate taxpayer-paid abortions and equal representation of women in military combat and selective service. Passing ERA would take away plenty of rights that women enjoy; but nothing in ERA would ever give women a pay raise or stop any sexual harassers.
ERA would not be "symbolic," but would cause real harm to real women by mandating that men and women are interchangeable in every circumstance. I am proud to continue the fight against this destructive amendment that my mother, Phyllis Schlafly, led.
- Anne Schlafly Cori, Alton, Ill.
Originally posts at: Chicago Tribune
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FYI: Unratified States
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi. Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia
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