Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court shows that Phyllis Schlafly was right about the ERA

Phyllis Schlafly, 2013. Photo by Gage Skidmore Constitutional Law Op-Ed

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court shows that Phyllis Schlafly was right about the ERA Ted Meehan September 24, 2025 September 23, 2025

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In the late 1960’s and early 70’s, as the feminist movement was rising in influence, its leaders wrote and promoted passage of an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) presumably to guarantee the rights of women. Very few people saw any problem with agreeing that women and men should be equal under the law.

The prescient Phyllis Schlafly led opposition to passage of the ERA, and took plenty of abuse for doing so. What objection could justify opposing such a nice gesture that codified what nearly everyone alre