ATrigueiro
1 min readNov 18, 2019

Was not the legal opinion that ERA would mean women would be subject to the draft that derailed it. Schaffly may have helped point this out, but once that notion got out into the Zeitgeist the ERA died. That was my recollection of having lived through it. I was sure it would pass, but then that Selective Service bugaboo derailed it.

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