re: #68 Anymouse

A quibble with the bill adding a line to the ERA.

If a line is added, it throws out every states’ ratification of the ERA. They would be required to ratify the new version, not the original version (it would be considered a new amendment proposal).

Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), that adds a sentence simply saying: “Women shall have equal rights in the U.S. and every place subject to its jurisdiction.”

Military bases abroad; U S Indian Reservations; Embassys; territories; private prisons; corporations; detention camps; —all have been a gray area in the law.

Sexual Assault and Violence against Women are often the crimes are often not enforced in these areas.

We have learned a lot about these crimes in the years since the original wording of the ERA.

I think the line is necessary.