The truth is that the ERA is very much alive today, and this terrifies anti-equality activists and columnists alike. We don’t need to start over. Like Professor Tribe said, we have met the requirements of Article V and just need the ERA to be recognized by Congress as valid. It has enormous potential to protect reproductive rights and freedom, trans rights and much more.
Author: Alessandra Sasha Goodfriend
Alessandra Sasha Goodfriend is the executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization of Women.