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I am confused, how is the ERA supposed to protect abortions? I read the whole article and I can’t find the reason. One day the activists were saying that ERA has no impact on abortion, and the next day they decided that it totally does, but the words of the Amendment stayed the same. Am I missing something obvious? To misquote Anatole France:
In its majestic equality, the law forbids men and women alike to terminate pregnancies.
How do we know that’s not what’s going to happen?
Theoretically, equal protection on the basis of sex would mean you couldn’t commandeer a pregnant person’s body for gestation because there are protections for impregnable citizens’ bodily integrity. Practically, the people in power quite obviously don’t care about the law when it doesn’t suit them.