Equal Rights Amendment North Carolina Alliance

It's Time to Write Women Into the Constitution!

Action Alert: Sign4ERA Petition

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the year Alice Paul first introduced the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Seneca Falls seeking to codify the prohibition of sex-based discrimination in the United States Constitution. For a century lawmakers, activists and grassroots organizers have been fighting to pass the ERA and we have never been closer. While the ERA has fulfilled all Article Five requirements, the last hurdle is removing an arbitrary deadline placed upon its ratification when it successfully passed Congress in 1972.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer plans to bring the ERA up for a vote on the Senate floor this week.

A petition drive, Sign4ERA, just launched today to raise the groundswell of support we need to push the ERA over this last hurdle.

Sign the ERA Petition

Please sign the petition, and call in your friends and family to sign, too!

The more signatures, the better – it will show that equality of rights under the law is the will of the American people. The ERA is the most permanent protection possible, safe from the whims of anti-choice, anti-women, anti-equality courts and politicians. Only the ERA will provide the constitutional basis to stop the attacks on abortion and birth control. The ERA would enable passage of stronger laws for survivors of gender-based violence to hold their abusers accountable. And the ERA is essential for achieving economic equality for women.

In the days ahead we’ll keep you posted with progress reports, action alerts and other steps you can take to put the ERA in the Constitution. But right now:

Sign the ERA Petition

We don’t have a moment to lose. Now is the time we must count on each other. Now is the time to act.

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