Working against it were feminists who objected to identical rights, led by Eleanor Roosevelt. She said women needed special protection
Same for the perverts and all the other special groups.
It’s interesting that you say that.
If the liberal of today were “switched” with the libs of yesteryear, “today’s” liberals would just pack the courts and declare it a “right’ already found in the constitution.
No need for those fussy amendments the Founders thought were needed to update the “Living Constitution”