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Alex Edelman/Getty Images(WASHINGTON)  Congressional Democrats on Thursday unveiled a new push to make the Equal Rights Amendment part of the Constitution. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri introduced a joint resolution stating the gender-equality measure has met ratification requirements and should be finalized as the 28th Amendment immediately by the national archivist. "The ERA is the path that brings our entire country toward true gender equity, and all that is standing in the way of this necessary change is paperwork," Bush said in a news release. The measure is the latest tactic in the party s renewed effort to revive the amendment, which protects against sex discrimination, in the wake of the Supreme Court s overruling of Roe v. Wade. Critics of the court s decision have pointed to language from Justice Clarence Thomas they say threatens other rights such as marriage equality or contraception access. Earlier this year, a bipartisa

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