This is an urgent Call-To-Action for women and our allies to pressure your Senators – especially those in the 38 RATIFIED STATES.
We need women and our allies calling and writing to them every day from now until January 27th, 2022 – ERA’s two-year ratification anniversary and the date when the ERA takes effect.
Below is an excerpt from the letter we urge you to print out, mail AND cut and paste into a contact form on your Senator’s website (linked here):
“The Archivist is refusing to publish the ERA even though he readily published the Twenty-Seventh Amendment in 1992 despite serious concerns about that Amendment’s validity. The Twenty-Seventh Amendment was ratified some 203 years after it was proposed by Congress, yet the Archivist published it forthwith, in accordance with his duties under 106b. The Congress asked the Archivist to delay publication until after it had a chance to vote on whether the amendment was valid despite the passage of time, but the Archivist rightly did not cede to Congress’ request.
The Archivist also declined to delay publication until after the OLC released its opinion on the issue. Simply put, the Archivist performed his task and published an amendment pertaining to congressional pay raises regardless of the fact that other government officials believed the Amendment was not constitutionally valid. Women’s equality is entitled to the same respect.” – Wendy Murphy, Equal Means Equal Legal Counsel.