With only 45 days left for the presidency of Joe Biden, there is a lot of pressure on him to use his still-powerful position to right many wrongs before this country enters an "equality deep-freeze' on January 20th.

Women have been waiting for an amendment establishing our equality as part of the U.S. Constitution for 101 years (101st Anniversary of the introduction of the ERA in 1923 by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman, will be on December 10). The Equal Rights Amendment has met all of the requirements for a Constitutional Amendment, but has been hung up in the Courts, first by the Trump Administration and then by the Biden Administration, despite President Biden having said many times that he is for it!

All that President Biden now has to do is to instruct the U.S. Archivist to 'publish the ERA' as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, and it will be officially part of the law and able to be acted on.

The National ERA Publication Taskforce is leading a campaign, backed by NYS Senator Kristin Gillibrand, to get President Biden to make that move for women during his time left in office. The Taskforce recently had a great win, when 46 Senators signed on to a letter to Biden urging him strongly to "publish the ERA" before leaving office. Previously, over the summer, the American Bar Association, passed a resolution saying all legal requirements had been met and the ERA was ready for publication.

The taskforce is urging ALL people of conscience to do the following to back up their campaign:

Text ?(302) 404-0880? and call the White House:11AM-3PM Tuesday Wednesday & Thursday ?(202) 456-1111?

And we would ask anyone who is looking for in-depth information to visit the website.  ShatteringGlass.org

GUESTS: Jean Sweeney Esq., Dr. Eileen Murphy

BIO'S OF GUESTS

JEAN SWEENEY, ESQ.

Jean Sweeney is a New York attorney who  has been working to get the Equal Rights Amendment cemented into our Constitution for the last 10 years.  She is passionate about having our Democracy honor and respect women as equal citizens and has led the National ERA Publication Task Force since 2021 pushing for President Biden to call the Federal Archivist and get our Constitution published with the Equal Rights Amendment. 

DR. EILEEN MURPHY

Dr. Eileen Murphy is a Chicago OB-GYN, lifelong ERA advocate and feminist. She is a Co-Leader of Shatteringglass' National ERA Publication Task Force with lawyers Nicole Vorrasi Bates and Jean Sweeney. She presently volunteers at CommunityHealth, a Chicago free health clinic for the uninsured and undocumented, and teaches first and second year medical students at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She has worked in general OB-GYN private practice, at community health centers, at Planned Parenthood, and served women with disabilities. She spent 10+ years as an OB Hospitalist in labor and delivery. She is intimately knowledgeable about the arc of women's lives and challenges. 

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