WALSH: Democrats Want An Amendment To Protect Women From Persecution. The Problem Is That Women Aren’t Being Persecuted.

Democrats, who remain dedicated to the notion that women are oppressed in our country despite an utter lack of evidence to support the claim, are now attempting to revive the defunct Equal Rights Amendment. The harmless sounding Amendment states: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

Leaving aside the dubious strategy of trying to ram an amendment down the Constitution’s throat by picking up where the ratification tally left off 50 years ago, the real problem with the proposed constitutional provision is that the best it could ever hope to be is merely redundant and unnecessary. Women already have equal rights under the law. Their rights are guaranteed just the same as men’s. The Bill of Rights does not come with a “this only applies to men” disclaimer attached. It secures the basic human rights of people of both sexes, and that is how every American law and legal decision in modern times has interpreted it. I am not aware of any state, county, or province, that denies gun ownership to women, or prohibits women from assembling in public, or allows for the unlawful search and seizure of women.