Can we start our own project for a constitutional amendment

[vlyons]

to protect a woman's right to control her own body? Put it right up there with our right to vote project.

[zaj]

1. This is why the right refused to pass the Equal Rights Amendment

[Demsrule86]

2. What would be the point. We don't have the numbers to proceed...better to work on

the coming elections.

[MineralMan]

3. What we need to do is to use the SCOTUS ruling, if it kills Roe,

to empower our campaigns in 2022 and increase our majorities in Congress. Then, repeat that in 2024. Only then, if we can establish solid majorities in both houses of Congress, we can begin talking about constitutional amendments. That is not a short-term possibility, but rather a long-term strategy.

I see a glimmer of hope in the local elections in Georgia, where a number of elective offices were flipped. We need to do the same everywhere, using whatever campaign options we have available to us. As Democrats, we need to change our lousy turnout in off-year and midterm elections and turn the tables on Republicans.

We can do it if we have the will to do it. I hope that is the case.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. For 50 years, congress has lacked the courage to even pass a basic abortion rights law

What makes you think there would be a snowball’s chance in hell of amending the constitution?

[Shrek]

8. Also need 75% of state legislatures to ratify such an amendment

I don't see that happening.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. Pass a law clearly affirming that right.

We have the Senate, House and White House. Now is the time.

[RicROC]

7. Liberals feel that if Roe is overturned, at least the states will be safe-haven for abortion

BUT the right is already working on calling for a Constitutional Convention and I fear, on the agenda will be a new proposed updated Constitution to outlaw all abortions in all states.