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The so-called '''Equal Rights Amendment''' ('''ERA''') was a proposed amendment to the [[United States Constitution]] passed by Congress in 1972 and sent to the states for ratification with a deadline for ratification of seven years.  It was stopped by a [[conservative]] grassroots movement led by [[Phyllis Schlafly]], which raised compelling objections including the following:

The so-called '''Equal Rights Amendment''' ('''ERA''') was a proposed amendment to the [[United States Constitution]] passed by Congress in 1972 and sent to the states for ratification with a deadline for ratification of seven years.  It was stopped by a [[conservative]] grassroots movement led by [[Phyllis Schlafly]], which raised compelling objections including the following:

*it would require identical treatment of men and women, and boys and girls, in many unexpected areas of life, such as allowing boys to compete in girls sports (as required under the Massachusetts ERA), and prohibit single-sex schools and classrooms

*it would require identical treatment of men and women, and boys and girls, in every way, such as allowing boys to compete in girls sports (as required under the Massachusetts ERA)

*it would prohibit single-sex schools and classrooms

*it would require drafting women just like men, and putting women in combat just like men

*it would require drafting women just like men, and putting women in combat just like men

*it would require taxpayer-funded [[abortion]]

*it would require taxpayer-funded [[abortion]]