Behavior: ERA Setback

It is dealt by psychiatrists

Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment adopted one of their most effective tactics in 1977 when they called for a boycott of all national conventions scheduled to be held in states that have failed to ratify ERA. Since then, over 400 professional, scientific and political organizations have refused to meet in non-ERA states, forgoing meetings in such traditional convention cities as Chicago, New Orleans and Miami. Now comes a major backslider from that boycott commitment: the American Psychiatric Association. On the pretense that the A.P.A. should avoid involvement in any political issue, the group voted 5,679 to...

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