Equal Rights Amendment

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh signed a petition to support a federal Equal Rights Amendment alongside the advocacy group Sign4ERA.

A proposed amendment to New York's constitution that supporters say is intended to protect abortion rights might appear on the ballot this fall without any mention of the word "abortion." That's partly because of disagreements about what the so-called Equal Rights Amendment would actually do, if passed.

A proposed amendment to New York's constitution to prohibit discrimination based on "gender identity" and "pregnancy outcomes" has been restored to the November election ballot by a state appeals court.

The amendment would enshrine the right to abortion in the state’s constitution and protect discrimination against gender and gender identity.

The Equal Rights Amendment include the right for pregnant people to choose abortion.

Changing the deadline is one way ERA proponents are trying to make the amendment part of the Constitution, but there isn't legal consensus on the tactic, and the Senate is expected to kill the bill.