Equal Means Equal has been dedicated to doing whatever it takes to realizing the century old dream of Constitutional equality since despite two bills in Congress, nearly 232 years of precedent, one of the largest caucuses in Congress, and overwhelming public support, the Equal Rights Amendment remains unpublished despite Virginia's ratification being certified 1,380 days ago and counting.
"We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers."-Bayard Rustin
Equal Means Equal released the following information today, draw your own conclusions:
Throughout the fight that led to t he Dobbs decision, EQUAL MEANS EQUAL and others picked up on a worrying trend; people were losing cases because their best defense, the now fully ratified Equal Rights Amendment, was being left on the table.
One of the Equal Means Equal lawyers, Arlaine Rockey, who, along with Gina Collias and Pamela Parker wrote amici curiae briefs in all three courts in our case against the US Archivist for failing to publish the ERA, realized that the legal team representing the women in the Dobbs lawsuit were not using the Federal ERA to save their reproductive rights and made Herculean efforts to have them do so.
Timeline:
- Jan 27th 2020 Virginia becomes final state needed to ratify the ERA
- December 1 2021 Jackson Women's Health Organization present oral arguments in the Dobbs case by their attorney, Julie Rikelman, Senior Director of Litigation for the Center for Reproductive Rights and the US Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar, representing the US Government,
- December 6th 2021, Attorney Arlaine Rockey contacts Julie Rikelman, by telephone, fax and email urging her to use ERA, which was set to become legally-effective on Jan 17 2022 (per ERA Section 3) in her arguments.
- THEY DO NOT RESPOND
- Jan 27th 2022 ERA becomes fully enforceable Federal law
- On May 2nd 2022 the proposed majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito is leaked and released to the public in which he writes that Roe v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113 (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833 (1992) were overruled because, "... no such right to abortion is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision...."
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