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1974 Women's Bar Association Newsletter 1 (1974)

handle is hein.peggy/wbanewsl0015 and id is 1 raw text is: , W0OMN S BAR ASSOCiA*)N OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUBIA N E W S and V E W S R itraud j, Perry - Editor Telephone: (301) 654-5353 October 1974 VIEWS Marguerite Rawalt submitted the following report on ratification: The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the Congress in March 1972 and submitted to the states for ratification. As of September 1974, 33 of the necessary 38 states have ratified : 1. Alabama 10. Missouri 2. Arizona 11. Nevada 3. Arkansas 12. North Carolina 4. Florida 13. North Dakota 5. Georgia 14. Oklahoma 6. Illinois 15. South Carolina 7. Indiana 16. Utah 8. Louisiana 17. Virginia 9. Mississippi No legislatures are in session right now. In Illinois ratification was voted by a simple majority, whereupon a challenge was made that a three-fifths majority was required. That question went to court where it is still pending. Coalitions in the non-ratified states are gearing up for action when the legislatures meet in January 1975, In general, funds are needed to cover a lobbying office operation in the State Capitals. Marguerite was the organizing Chairman of the RA Ratification Council in Washington which acts as a clearing house of information to work with State coalitions. She is presently Vice Chairman of the Council. THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATIVE PLOY By J4arguerite Rawalt, with quotations from the report of Virginia N 0 W. The Virginia House Privileges and ,Elections Committee met on February 29, 1974 to act upon the ratification of the Eual Rights Amendment. The Chairman, James N. ...Thomson (Dl-Alexandria) promptly announced that no fuarther testimony would be heard (prior testimon~y was heard on Feb. 1, 1973) called for executive session and excluded the public, the press, and other Delegates from the room. After some 20 minutes, the meeting was reopened, two committee members made brief statements, and the Comittee then voted to kill the Equal Rights Amendment by a vote of 12 to 8. Later it was learned that Mr. Thomson had produced two copies of a document which ne told the Committee was an Attorney General's opinion, but allowed no time for reading the memorandum, He reported that its conclusions were that the ERA Would permit no distinctions based on sex, thus would require indis-rinate mixing of the sexes in dormitories, public restrooms, prison cells, etc. Immediately after the meeting, committee members and others tried to get copies of the memorandum from the Attorney General's office. All requests were denied until the following day. The document turned out to be 9-1/2 ages plus 3 pages of footnotes, entitled The Equal Rights Amendment authored by Assistant Attorney General D. Patrick Lacy, Jr. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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