28th Amendment: A Tool To Fight Online Sexual Abuse
July 07, 2026
If you spend a lot of time on social media, you've probably noticed the "trad wife" trend — short for traditional wife. It centers on women who embrace traditional gender roles in marriage, turning out polished videos of beautiful homes and home-cooked meals that look restaurant-ready. Many trad wife influencers say their choice to leave careers behind and serve their husbands is rooted in biblical principles, as one explained in this interview on 60 Minutes Australia.
Trad wives raise a fair point about the importance of financial independence for women. But women should have the choice to do what makes them happy. We live in a country that values choice. Go to church, or don't. Get married, or don't. Watch CNN or Fox News, both or neither. You do you.
The one thing we don't value here is one group taking away the rights of another. That's a concept some trad wives seem to have lost sight of. At the recent Turning Point USA Women's Leadership Summit, several women said they'd happily give up their right to vote for a more conservative, more Christian nation.
You heard that right — a return to the early 1900s.
These women might be content trading the ballot box for the kitchen. But at least 91.3 million U.S. women wouldn't share their enthusiasm. That's how many voted in the 2024 presidential election, compared to 82.6 million men. According to the Center for American Women in Politics, women have registered and voted at higher rates than men in every presidential election since 1980.
This isn't a fringe idea, either. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently reposted a video of a Christian nationalist pastor arguing that women shouldn't be allowed to vote.
The Equal Rights Amendment would be the only direct guarantee of sex equality in the Constitution. It wouldn't stop any woman from choosing a traditional life — if she wants to leave the workforce and build her world around home and family, that's her right, and the ERA does nothing to change that. Choice cuts both ways.
What the ERA would do is make sure choice stays a choice, not a mandate open to reversal. It would lock sex equality into the Constitution so no future Congress, state legislature, or court could roll back women's rights on the strength of a political trend. A woman can vote to stay home. She can't vote away the right for the rest of us.
That's the difference between a lifestyle and a law. Trad wives are entitled to the first. None of us — including them — should have to gamble on the second.
