{"id":1059633,"date":"2021-11-27T13:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T18:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059633"},"modified":"2021-11-27T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T18:14:33","slug":"an-obligation-to-fix-the-constitution-alyssa-milano-and-democrats-team-up-to-illegally-amend-our-founding-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-obligation-to-fix-the-constitution-alyssa-milano-and-democrats-team-up-to-illegally-amend-our-founding-document\/","title":{"rendered":"An \u2018Obligation To Fix The Constitution\u2019: Alyssa Milano And Democrats Team Up To Illegally Amend Our Founding Document"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fan-obligation-to-fix-the-constitution-alyssa-milano-and-democrats-team-up-to-illegally-amend-our-founding-document%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1059633&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Although you have likely not heard much about it from the media, the Democrats recently unveiled a plan to illegally add an element of their radical, intersectional agenda to the text of the U.S. Constitution. The controversial amendment could eliminate all laws that recognize biological differences between men and women, and it could force taxpayers to fund abortion-on-demand. Worse yet, their actions come decades after the Left tried and <em>failed <\/em>to convince Americans to adopt the proposed amendment democratically. Congressional Democrats\u2019 plot to declare victory despite their national repudiation is so unscrupulous and unserious that their main witness at a recent hearing was actress Alyssa Milano, who said they have an \u201cobligation to fix the Constitution\u201d and \u201cstop it from failing\u201d everyone \u201cwho is not a cisgender man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At issue is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a benign-sounding Nixon-era amendment that concealed an unpopular feminist agenda. Critics say it would erode the legal protections of women and create a constitutional right to abortion just as Supreme Court justices seem poised to amend, or overturn, <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Regardless of its substance (which we\u2019ll discuss in a minute), conservatives should be alarmed at the Democrats\u2019 plan to amend the text of the U.S. Constitution 38 years after their ratification efforts failed.<\/p>\n<p>The Equal Rights Amendment seemed destined to become the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1972. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/federal-register\/constitution\/article-v.html\">Article V<\/a> of the Constitution requires amendments to pass Congress by a two-thirds margin, then be ratified by three-fourths of the states (38 states out of 50). The ERA \u2014 which was championed by democratic socialists <a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/jcws\/article-abstract\/23\/1\/229\/100498\/Battling-Bella-The-Protest-Politics-of-Bella-Abzug?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">Rep. Bella Abzug<\/a> (D-NY), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsausa.org\/statements\/npc_statement_on_gloria_steinem\/\">Gloria Steinem<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/gender\/report\/betty-friedan-and-the-birth-modern-feminism\">Betty Friedan<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/equal-rights-amendment-passed-by-congress\">passed<\/a> the U.S. House of Representatives by the required margin in October 1971 and cleared the Senate five months later. But the legislation they passed contained a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/equal-rights-amendment-era-federal-judge-advocates\/10395278\/\">time limit<\/a>: The ERA had to be ratified within seven years.<\/p>\n<p>That hurdle seemed insignificant, as a total of 30 states ratified the ERA within a year \u2014 14 of them within the first month. Five more states followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/misc\/R42979.pdf\">1978<\/a>, when the Democrat-controlled Congress voted to extend the deadline to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equalrightsamendment.org\/era-ratification-map\">June 30, 1982<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reason the momentum ground to a halt can be encapsulated in two words: Phyllis Schlafly, a well-educated mother from Illinois who would go on to found <a href=\"https:\/\/eagleforum.org\/\">Eagle Forum<\/a>. Schlafly gave the American people an opportunity to think through the ways the ERA would impact daily life. The main text of the amendment read: \u201cEquality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women already enjoy equality under the law thanks to the 14th Amendment, she said. In fact, she continued, society gave women such an elevated state that legal equality would downgrade their status. How would eliminating all laws made \u201con account of sex,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/eagleforum.org\/topics\/era\/please-vote-no-on-era-because-the-era-harms-women.html\">asked<\/a>, affect such policies as:<\/p>\n<p>women\u2019s exemption from being drafted into military service;separate facilities for showers, restrooms, college dorm rooms, battered women\u2019s shelters, and prisons;federal programs like Title IX, Social Security benefits for women who worked in the home, and Women Infants and Children (WIC)<\/p>\n<p>While her opponents insisted Schlafly exaggerated the impact of the bill, its legislative history says otherwise. For instance, in 1972, the U.S. Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=u4UJAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA421&amp;lpg=PA421&amp;dq=The+provisions+of+this+article+shall+not+impair+the+validity,+however,+of+any+laws+of+the+United+States+or+any+State+which+exempt+women+from+compulsory+military+service,+or+from+service+in+combat+units+of+the+Armed+Forces;+or+extend+protections+or+exemptions+to+wives,+mothers,+or+widows;+or+impose+upon+fathers+responsibility+for+the+support+of+children;+or+secure+privacy+to+men+or+women,+or+boys+or+girls;+or+make+punishable+as+crimes+rape,+seduction,+or+other+sexual+offenses&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=OZ46_Xj0qw&amp;sig=ACfU3U3tnbZCs0M9O6uF2CV-2o0FpSND2w&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwijifzqwqL0AhVOV80KHWMVBMgQ6AF6BAgDEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=The%20provisions%20of%20this%20article%20shall%20not%20impair%20the%20validity%2C%20however%2C%20of%20any%20laws%20of%20the%20United%20States%20or%20any%20State%20which%20exempt%20women%20from%20compulsory%20military%20service%2C%20or%20from%20service%20in%20combat%20units%20of%20the%20Armed%20Forces%3B%20or%20extend%20protections%20or%20exemptions%20to%20wives%2C%20mothers%2C%20or%20widows%3B%20or%20impose%20upon%20fathers%20responsibility%20for%20the%20support%20of%20children%3B%20or%20secure%20privacy%20to%20men%20or%20women%2C%20or%20boys%20or%20girls%3B%20or%20make%20punishable%20as%20crimes%20rape%2C%20seduction%2C%20or%20other%20sexual%20offenses&amp;f=false\">rejected<\/a> by an 82-9 vote an amendment that said:<\/p>\n<p><em>The provisions of this article shall not impair the validity, however, of any laws of the United States or any State which exempt women from compulsory military service, or from service in combat units of the Armed Forces; or extend protections or exemptions to wives, mothers, or widows; or impose upon fathers responsibility for the support of children; or secure privacy to men or women, or boys or girls; or make punishable as crimes rape, seduction, or other sexual offenses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senators proposed a portion of this amendment specifying that the ERA does not overturn state laws banning \u201csexual offenses\u201d as a separate amendment; the Senate rejected it, 71-17. Indeed, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) recently <a href=\"https:\/\/maloney.house.gov\/issues\/womens-issues\/equal-rights-amendment\">said<\/a> that the \u201cERA will eliminate sex discrimination in the armed services.\u201d Conservative scholar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwv.org\/people\/inez-stepman\/\">Inez Feltscher Stepman<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwv.org\/\">Independent Women\u2019s Voice<\/a> said that, taken to its logical conclusion, the ERA could <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/Stepman%20Testimony.pdf\">require<\/a> the military \u201cto draft men and women in equal numbers and to send equal numbers of women and men into combat positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the biggest fight over the ERA is how it would impact abortion \u2014 and here, it is not conservatives making the bold claims. To this day, the abortion lobby believes the ERA would strike down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-bias-101-pro-life-restrictions-vs-pro-abortion-protections\">pro-life legislative protections<\/a> in all 50 states. \u201cWith its ratification, the ERA would reinforce the constitutional right to abortion by clarifying that the sexes have equal rights, which would require judges to strike down anti-abortion laws because they violate both the constitutional right to privacy and sexual equality,\u201d NARAL <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191223210820\/https:\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/campaign\/era_yes\/\">wrote<\/a> on a website, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although you have likely not heard much about it from the media, the Democrats recently unveiled a plan to illegally add an element of their radical, intersectional agenda to the text of the U.S. Constitution. The controversial amendment could eliminate all laws that recognize biological differences between men and women, and it could force taxpayers to fund abortion-on-demand. Worse yet, their actions come decades after the Left tried and failed to convince Americans to adopt the proposed amendment democratically. Congressional Democrats\u2019 plot to declare victory despite their national repudiation is so unscrupulous and unserious that their main witness at a recent hearing was actress Alyssa Milano, who said they have an \u201cobligation to fix the Constitution\u201d and \u201cstop it from failing\u201d everyone \u201cwho is not a cisgender man.\u201dAt issue is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a benign-sounding Nixon-era amendment that concealed an unpopular feminist agenda. Critics say it would erode the legal protections of women and create a constitutional right to abortion just as Supreme Court justices seem poised to amend, or overturn, Roe v. Wade. Regardless of its substance (which we\u2019ll discuss in a minute), conservatives should be alarmed at the Democrats\u2019 plan to amend the text of the U.S. Constitution 38 years after their ratification efforts failed.The Equal Rights Amendment seemed destined to become the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1972. Article V of the Constitution requires amendments to pass Congress by a two-thirds margin, then be ratified by three-fourths of the states (38 states out of 50). The ERA \u2014 which was championed by democratic socialists Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), Gloria Steinem, and Betty Friedan \u2014 passed the U.S. House of Representatives by the required margin in October 1971 and cleared the Senate five months later. But the legislation they passed contained a time limit: The ERA had to be ratified within seven years.That hurdle seemed insignificant, as a total of 30 states ratified the ERA within a year \u2014 14 of them within the first month. Five more states followed by 1978, when the Democrat-controlled Congress voted to extend the deadline to June 30, 1982.The reason the momentum ground to a halt can be encapsulated in two words: Phyllis Schlafly, a well-educated mother from Illinois who would go on to found Eagle Forum. Schlafly gave the American people an opportunity to think through the ways the ERA would impact daily life. The main text of the amendment read: \u201cEquality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.\u201dWomen already enjoy equality under the law thanks to the 14th Amendment, she said. In fact, she continued, society gave women such an elevated state that legal equality would downgrade their status. How would eliminating all laws made \u201con account of sex,\u201d she asked, affect such policies as:women\u2019s exemption from being drafted into military service;separate facilities for showers, restrooms, college dorm rooms, battered women\u2019s shelters, and prisons;federal programs like Title IX, Social Security benefits for women who worked in the home, and Women Infants and Children (WIC)While her opponents insisted Schlafly exaggerated the impact of the bill, its legislative history says otherwise. For instance, in 1972, the U.S. Senate rejected by an 82-9 vote an amendment that said:The provisions of this article shall not impair the validity, however, of any laws of the United States or any State which exempt women from compulsory military service, or from service in combat units of the Armed Forces; or extend protections or exemptions to wives, mothers, or widows; or impose upon fathers responsibility for the support of children; or secure privacy to men or women, or boys or girls; or make punishable as crimes rape, seduction, or other sexual offenses.Senators proposed a portion of this amendment specifying that the ERA does not overturn state laws banning \u201csexual offenses\u201d as a separate amendment; the Senate rejected it, 71-17. Indeed, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) recently said that the \u201cERA will eliminate sex discrimination in the armed services.\u201d Conservative scholar Inez Feltscher Stepman of Independent Women\u2019s Voice said that, taken to its logical conclusion, the ERA could require the military \u201cto draft men and women in equal numbers and to send equal numbers of women and men into combat positions.\u201dBut the biggest fight over the ERA is how it would impact abortion \u2014 and here, it is not conservatives making the bold claims. To this day, the abortion lobby believes the ERA would strike down pro-life legislative protections in all 50 states. \u201cWith its ratification, the ERA would reinforce the constitutional right to abortion by clarifying that the sexes have equal rights, which would require judges to strike down anti-abortion laws because they violate both the constitutional right to privacy and sexual equality,\u201d NARAL wrote on a website, which it has since deleted. The president of Planned Parenthood, Alexis McGill Johnson, agreed, \u201cThere are no equal rights for women without access to abortion, plain and simple.\u201d Since the Left insists that \u201caccess\u201d requires federal funding, the office of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) surmised that the renewed ERA fight is \u201cabout eliminating federal and state life protections and ushering in an era of taxpayer funding of abortion.\u201dAfter the United States had an opportunity to digest these arguments, momentum stopped, then reversed. Although the Democrats extended the ERA\u2019s ratification deadline, no additional states signed on, and five states rescinded their previous ratification votes: Nebraska (1973), Tennessee (1974), Idaho (1977), Kentucky (1978), and South Dakota (1979).The debate had been had, and the Democrats lost. Many people assumed they\u2019d heard the last of the platform-shoes-and-bell-bottoms era proposal outside reruns of \u201cMrs. America.\u201d But the Left never accepts any rejection. Now the Democrats are trying to revive a proposed amendment that went out with Dexy\u2019s Midnight Runners. Nevada ratified the long-dead ERA in 2017, followed by Illinois in 2018, and Virginia in 2020. They then proclaimed these states had pushed the moribund amendment over the finish line \u2014 never mind the five states that had withdrawn their support.The Trump administration\u2019s Justice Department ruled the ratification had come too late. But its supporters said that the time limit was part of the legislation, not part of the ERA text itself, so it could be ignored. They also argued the Constitution doesn\u2019t give states the option of rescinding support for an amendment.The Democrats tried to sue the ERA into the Constitution and lost again. In March, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee, ruled that a \u201cratification deadline in a proposing resolution\u2019s introduction is just as effective as one in the text of a proposed amendment,\u201d so the deadline to adopt the ERA \u201cexpired long ago.\u201d He didn\u2019t address whether a state can rescind its support of an amendment. The three states that ratified the ERA after the deadline appealed his decision in May. But even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed to reject their arguments. \u201cHow can you disregard states that said \u2018we\u2019ve changed our minds\u2019?\u201d she asked in 2020. \u201cI would like to see a new beginning\u201d for the ERA\u2019s ratification, starting from scratch, she said.With its legal fate still uncertain, the Left decided to simply declare the ERA part of the Constitution. First, in March, the House passed a resolution from retiring Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) retroactively repeating the ERA\u2019s 1982 ratification deadline, 222-204. Then on October 21, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing where they said the ERA is part of the Constitution. This is where Alyssa Milano comes in.The \u201cWho\u2019s the Boss\u201d star testified before the House that the \u201cdebate is over. We won.\u201d She then asserted that the U.S. government has an \u201cobligation to fix the Constitution\u201d:The states have directed Congress to amend the Constitution, and it is now the duty of Congress and the Administration [sic] to get out of the way and remove the arbitrary, unnecessary, and shameful deadline that was cynically imposed nearly a half century ago as a poison pill. \u2026 The lack of Constitutional [sic] protections for anyone who is not a cisgender man is a blemish on the very idea of Americanism. \u2026 The Framers failed us when they did not include women in the Constitution. Congress failed us when it added the deadline for ratification of the ERA. You, the members of this committee, have the opportunity and the obligation to fix the constitution [sic] and stop it from failing us. Her words echo Barack Obama\u2019s statement that the U.S. Constitution \u201creflected\u00a0the\u00a0fundamental flaw of this country\u00a0that continues to this day.\u201dStill, some in attendance found them persuasive. At the end of the hearing, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who represents the D.C. suburbs, said, \u201cI contend based on this testimony, that the ERA is now an amendment to the Constitution duly ratified by the 38th state, the Commonwealth of Virginia.\u201dAlyssa locuta est, causa finita est.After the Green Bay Packers lost a game, legendary football coach Vince Lombardi reportedly said, \u201cWe didn\u2019t lose the game; we just ran out of time.\u201d With Phyllis Schlafly no longer here to fight them, the Democratic Party has decided to take the same approach toward the Equal Rights Amendment. The Democrats\u2019 cynical attempt to move the goalposts, rewrite the Constitution, enshrine abortion as sacrosanct, and legally obliterate the immutable biological differences between males and females should show every patriotic American how far the Left is willing to go in its bid to fundamentally transform America \u2014 and how vigilant we must remain to keep our republic.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}