Multi-platinum singer Alicia Keys has used her social media platform to promote a new round of Equal Rights Amendment activism, insisting that American women still lack constitutional equality and urging followers to help draft a Peoples Bill of Rights ahead of the nations 250th anniversary.
In an emotional Instagram video highlighted by The Gateway Pundit, Keys lamented that its been 100 years since the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced and claimed that women dont have an explicit guarantee to equal rights under the U.S. Constitution. The entertainer then directed viewers to peoplesbillofrights250.org to turn outrage into authorship and invited them to help shape a new Peoples Bill of Rights for the countrys semiquincentennial.
Did you know that its been 100 years since the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced? And now, still, women dont have an explicit guarantee to equal rights under the U.S. Constitution. Can you believe that? I couldnt even believe that was real. I mean, women are not asking for special rights, just equal rights, Keys said, casting the United States as fundamentally deficient on womens rights. She continued, Lets turn outrage into authorship. If its the 250th celebration of the country, isnt it time to update some things? What rights or guarantees do you feel all women should have in America? Thats a good question. Im not here to speak for you. I just want to pass you the mic. So have your say at peoplesbillofrights250.org. Not red, not blue. Just you.
Constitutional conservatives counter that American women already enjoy every core liberty secured to citizens: free speech, religious exercise, assembly, the right to keep and bear arms, due process, equal protection, property rights, contract rights, and the franchise. They note that the 14th Amendments Equal Protection Clause has long been applied to sex discrimination, the 19th Amendment secured womens right to vote, and federal laws such as Title VII and the Equal Pay Act add further protections and opportunities.
Critics argue that the women dont have equal rights narrative is a calculated talking point of the radical left, designed to justify rewriting the Constitution and abolishing biological sex distinctions under the guise of equality. As The Gateway Pundit reported, in January 2025 lame-duck President Joe Biden attempted to unilaterally proclaim the long-expired Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment, a move widely condemned as unconstitutional.
Opponents describe the ERA as a deceptively branded measure that would, in practice, drive a hard-left social agenda far beyond basic fairness between men and women. Senate Republicans previously moved to block what they called an illegitimate ratification process, warning that the amendment could be used to legalize abortion on demand, abolish separate-sex sports, prisons, and restrooms, force women to register for the draft, mandate taxpayer funding for sex-reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers for minors, and even bar religious organizations from maintaining single-sex membership.
For many on the right, the real debate is not whether women have rightsthey plainly dobut whether activists like Keys are fronting a broader project to dismantle long-standing moral, legal, and biological distinctions in American life. That concern, more than celebrity rhetoric, is what continues to animate conservative resistance to the ERA and to sweeping constitutional experiments pushed in the name of equality.
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