New York’s Equal Rights Amendment Returned to Nov. 5 Ballot in Latest Ruling

Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox, who sued alleging that a proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) violates the New York state constitution, is vowing to appeal.

Courtesy of Bobbie Anne Flower Cox

As it stands today, New Yorkers will get to vote in November on a proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the state constitution. In the latest round of this on-again, off-again battle, a Rochester, New York, appellate court overturned an earlier decision, which said that Proposition 1 couldn’t be on the ballot because state legislators violated procedure in voting on the amendment in the first place.

The ERA, also known as Proposition 1, would codify abortion access rights and add 11 new discrimination categories to New York’s constitution.