A poll commissioned by Ms. Magazine predicts that an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution, in addition to abortion rights, will be important and a potent combination during the 2024 national election.
It took generations of constant grassroots and nonviolent organizing to win the right for women to vote in the United States. As US women noted, the right to an abortion that had been permanently established in the US Constitution, demonstrated for millions that the matter represented a reform, not a guarantee.
Patriarchy and a top-down social system are attempting to keep the status of women and others as second class by viewing the matters of an equal rights amendment and abortion rights as reforms rather than guarantees.