The Incomplete Cynic

“I have introduced the full ‘start-over’ ERA in each Congress since I arrived because the rights of women deserve to be constitutional.”
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Rep. Carolyn Malony, quoted in Barbara Hannah Grufferman: Will America Kill the Equal Rights Amendment?

No, actually, they don’t. The Constitution is about the rights of Americans. No specific group deserves to be included in it. The rights of women are constitutional, because they’re the same rights, with the same protections, offered to every one of us.

Besides, passing would be like affirmative action; you declare that fully half the American population essentially has a birth defect, and it can only be rectified through constitutional protection.
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