Comments | ontd_political: After 35 Years, Nevada Is Slated To Ratify The Equal Rights Amendment

moonbladem in ontd_political

After 35 Years, Nevada Is Slated To Ratify The Equal Rights Amendment

Mar 21, 2017 16:03

If passed, only two more states need to ratify the ERA.

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womens rights, nevada, equal pay, women

Comments 4

lightframes March 21 2017, 22:38:47 UTC

Every time I think about this it makes me sad, but I'm glad it hasn't been forgotten.

adelheide March 21 2017, 23:38:38 UTC

We are proceeding. It's taking a fuckall long time, but we are proceeding.

ohmiya_sg March 22 2017, 03:39:09 UTC

If two more states were to ratify the ERA at this point, Congress would need to extend or waive the 1982 deadline it originally set.

That's a not-insubstantial hurdle buried in there...

moonshaz March 23 2017, 00:58:27 UTC

I'll never forget how disappointed I was when IL didn't ratify the ERA back in 1980-whenever. If we had another shot I think it would pass now. This state is pretty sane on so many other issues. We have the least fucked up abortion laws in the midwest, and we actually legalized same-sex marriage legislatively instead of having to be sued into doing the right thing. IL is too cool to not ratify the ERA, damn it.