Sen. Gillibrand will urge certification and publication of Equal Rights Amendment

January 2, 2025 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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MANHATTAN —THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT must be certified and published before President Biden leaves office on Jan. 20, says U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who will give a press conference on the matter this Sunday, Jan. 5 at her district office in Manhattan. Gillibrand, who has been leading the effort to certify the ERA as the 28th Amendment, is urging President Biden, while he’s still in office, to protect reproductive rights for millions of women by directing the archivist of the United States to do so. Federal law directs that the Archivist of the United States is responsible for certifying that a proposed constitutional amendment has been ratified after receiving official notice from three-fourths of the states that they have adopted the amendment in accordance with the Constitution, according to Congress.gov’s Constitution Annotated website. The Archivist publishes the amendment’s text along with a certificate listing the states that have adopted the amendment. The ERA would then enshrine equality and reproductive freedom in the Constitution and would serve as protection and rebuttal against a national ban on abortion.

Expected to join Gillibrand at the conference are Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright, that legislative body’s sponsor of the New York State Equal Rights Amendment; and Sasha Ahuja, Campaign Director, New Yorkers for Equal Rights.

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