
“The ERA – Everything Related to Abortion Act – failed multiple times, something Joe Biden seems to have forgotten in his strange announcement that it’s law,” said Students for Life’s Kristan Hawkins. “The Biden Administration made weaponized government go nuclear during the last four years, but in what world does Biden think he can pencil abortion into the U.S. Constitution? This is offensive lawfare.”
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WASHINGTON D.C. (01-17-2025) – In response to news that President Joe Biden has decided to ignore the Constitution to amend the Constitution by declaring that the Equal Rights Amendment is law, Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins wondered if Biden’s infamous dog, Commander, ate the President’s homework and copy of the U.S. Constitution, “My dog ate my homework excuse just isn’t going to fly, as penciling ‘abortion’ into the U.S. Constitution through the failed Equal Rights Amendment is a ridiculous and unlawful act. Biden lost the White House, and the ERA also lost as it failed to meet two Congressional deadlines. Joe, it’s time for you to step away from the microphone.”
For more of Hawkins’s react, visit X, HERE.
Writing at FOX during a previous attempt to do an end run around the utter failure of the ERA, Hawkins observed:
“On deadlines: Congress gave proponents of the ERA until 1979 to get 38 states’ approval to add it to the Constitution. And they failed, getting only 35 states to buy in. So, some in Congress rigged a 1982 extension.
… Deadlines are not a figment of congressional imagination; they are the purview of entire rule-setting committees. The clock ran out on ERA ratification, as the National Archives noted when refusing to publish the ERA as an addition to the U.S. Constitution.
This is not a “conservative” view. The abortion-supporting, late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, said the ERA – like old milk – had passed its expiration date, and it was time to throw out a stale and stalled ERA.
“I would like to see a new beginning. I’d like it to start over. There’s too much controversy about latecomers — Virginia, long after the deadline passed. Plus, a number of states have withdrawn their ratification. So, if you count a latecomer on the plus side, how can you disregard states that said, ‘We’ve changed our minds’?” Ginsburg said at Georgetown Law School event in 2020.
In fact, five states withdrew their approval, to the shrill disapproval of abortion advocates who want the deadlines waived for latecomers, but the change of heart by those who reconsidered ignored.”
On the ERA, Students for Life Action was a leader in a coalition to defeat it multiple times. Link to Coalition letter here. Link to SFLAction Key Vote Alert here. Previous News Release Link here.
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The Pro-Life Generation (PLG) is an umbrella organization encompassing the most-cutting edge engagement opportunities for a Vote Pro-Life First Community. PLG includes Students for Life Action (SFLAction), a 501c4, along with its 501c3 sister organization, Students for Life of America (SFLA), that together make up the nation’s largest, pro-life youth organization, managing a grassroots political and policy operation engaging Americans of all ages but with a special emphasis on the largest segment of voters — the Youth Vote. Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, PLG/SFLA/SFLAction serves more than 1,400 groups on middle, high school, college, medical, and law school campuses in all 50 states. Our team has more conversations with this generation targeted by the abortion lobby than any other pro-life operation in the world, each week reaching more than 4 million across social media platforms and averaging 1.3 million video views. In addition to SFLA/SFLAction, PLG leads multiple initiatives to lead and serve the future of the pro-life movement including the Campaign for Abortion Free Cities, Standing With You, and the Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement . Over more than 17 years, PLG CEO Kristan Hawkins has grown the operation into a nearly $20M organization, now preparing for an abortion-free America.