Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers have once again blocked a vote on whether Arizona should ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment.
People are also reading… HCR 2030 would remove Arizona from the list of 12 states that have not supported ratification. So on Wednesday, Rep. Patty Contreras, D-Phoenix, made a motion to bring it directly to the floor, regardless of the lack of committee review.House Majority Leader Leo Biasiucci, R-Lake Havasu City, used a procedural move to substitute another motion, this one to instead go directly to floor debate on other issues.
Contreras also said this hasn't always been the partisan issue it has become. She also said noted that Sandra Day O'Connor, a state senator in the 1970s, supported the idea.When constituents wrote her in 1974 to support the measure she sent out a form letter. On Wednesday, House Majority Whip Teresa Martinez, R-Casa Grande, said she sees no need for a constitutional amendment."As a woman, I appreciate giving birth, I appreciate being a mother, I appreciate my pro-life choices," Martinez said. Foes of the measure have said in the past that they see the amendment as a back-door method of putting a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution."They look at me as equal to them," she said.
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