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In reply to the discussion: The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It's Only Been 96 Years. [View all]ancianita
(36,058 posts)Amendment tests aren't simple, true.
However, the constitutional meaning of the ERA renders "anti-choice" arguments moot.
How lawyers might try to interpret women's fundamental rights to bodily autonomy relating to the ERA amendment is arguable, to them and their plaintiffs. But it just won't be arguable anymore, really.
I'm interested in the arguments they'd offer. They'd likely have to show proofs of "harm," and/or that there is actual legal standing of some tissues within a body -- of humans who have prior legal rights of "life, liberty..." -- that is now recognized nationwide as having the same constitutional fundamental rights that male bodies have.
Anti-choicers presume a legal status in case law that will not exist after the ERA.