SPRINGFIELD – In 1981, dozens of women descended upon the state Capitol with bread and other baked treats for legislators. On the annual “Stop-ERA Bread Day,” their message: Men who approve the Equal Rights Amendment can no longer count on their wives to tend to hearth and home. Their leader, a housewife from Alton named Phyllis Schlafly, railed against the ERA to guarantee equal rights for women, saying it would lead to taxpayer-funded abortions and forced military draft for women.
Illinois, Which Buried Equal Rights Amendment Decades Ago, Now Its Darling
The Associated Press, Northwest Herald
Sat, 06/09/2018 - 9:47pm
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