Go to https://varatifyera.org/ to learn more about why Virginia needs to ratify the ERA and how you can become involved in the process of making this happen.
Why ratify the Equal Rights Amendment?
- The Constitution: the Constitution is the bedrock foundation of our nation’s laws. Since 1950, all international constitutions have included gender equality and so should ours!
- Judicial review: currently gender discrimination cases are treated with “intermediate scrutiny” versus the “strict scrutiny” guaranteed to race, religion, and country of origin (covered by the Fourteenth Amendment).
- Civil rights: women’s rights ARE civil rights.