Arguments by ERA opponents such as Phyllis Schlafly, right-wing leader of the Eagle Forum/STOP ERA, played on the same fears that had generated female opposition to woman suffrage.
Anti-ERA organizers claimed that the ERA would deny woman’s right to be supported by her husband, privacy rights would be overturned, women would be sent into combat, and abortion rights and homosexual marriages would be upheld. Opponents surfaced from other traditional sectors as well. States’-rights advocates said the ERA was a federal power grab, and business interests such as the insurance industry opposed a measure they believed would cost them money. Opposition to the ERA was also organized by fundamentalist religious groups.
However, in 1977, Indiana became the 35th and so far the last state to ratify the ERA. That year also marked the death of Alice Paul, who, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony before her, never saw the Constitution amended to include the equality of rights she had worked for all her life.
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• Jerry Cox, executive director of the conservative Family Council, said his group will oppose the resolution.
Family Council
414 S Pulaski St., Suite 2, Little Rock, AR 72201
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Family Council speaks out on a number of social issues. Among these are: abortion, end of life Issues, stem cell research, human cloning, physician-assisted suicide, same-sex marriage, religious liberty, homosexuality, gambling, judicial activism, education choice, home schooling, divorce, taxes, health care.
