The War on Women Comes for RBG

When Words Are Twisted for Political Agenda, Even Icons are Erased*

When, in 1971, the American Civil Liberties Union created a Women’s Rights Project, making the issue a legal priority, the organization asked Ruth Bader Ginsburg, then a law professor at Rutgers University, to spearhead the effort. It was a natural choice.

RBG was already attacking sex discrimination by winning cases for men who…