Cori Bush once compared abortion pills to Tylenol on the House floor.
Now she wants that same logic locked into the Constitution forever.
Missouri voters were about to decide whether she gets the chance.
Bush Picks the Equal Rights Amendment as Her Delivery Vehicle
Cori Bush told SiriusXM host Lurie Daniel Favors she will fight to make the Equal Rights Amendment the 28th Amendment if voters send her back to Congress.
She made the claim on The Lurie Daniel Favors Show in an interview posted days before Tuesday's Missouri Democrat primary.
Bush called herself the lead sponsor of the ERA alongside fellow Squad member Ayanna Pressley.
She bragged it marked the first time two black women sponsored the amendment in its hundred-year history.
Then Bush explained exactly what she wants the ERA to unlock.
"Trans rights, abortion rights, so much is up under that equal rights amendment," Bush said.
She did not stop at workplace discrimination or education policy.
Bush wants the amendment treated as a blank check for the entire left-wing agenda on gender and abortion.
This is the same congresswoman who told a 2023 House hearing that abortion pills were the equivalent of Tylenol for trans people facing restrictions on sex-change procedures for minors.
She argued the pills were "life-saving," no different than something off a pharmacy shelf.
Bush has spent her career treating radical positions as common sense.
No Court Has Ever Ruled the ERA Is Actually Law
Here is what Bush left out of her pitch to voters.
The Archivist of the United States has flat out refused to certify the ERA as the 28th Amendment.
The Justice Department already told the Archivist the clock ran out in 1982, and Congress never beat that deadline.
Every federal court to touch the question has said the same thing: the ERA is not in the Constitution, period.
Joe Biden tried to declare it "law of the land" in his final days in office, and legal experts and the National Archives both rejected the claim.
Bush is not describing existing law.
She is describing a plan to force it into existence through a Democrat Congress and a friendly White House.
Legal scholars and elected Republicans have already mapped out what that plan would do.
It would gut modest abortion restrictions all the way through the moment of birth.
It would open women's sports and locker rooms to biological men.
It would turn Father's Day and Mother's Day into legally shaky holidays under a gender-neutral Constitution.
Bush is not hiding the goal.
She is telling Missouri exactly what she plans to do with the seat if they give it back to her.
The Timing Was Not an Accident
Bush lost this seat to Wesley Bell in 2024 after running as the loudest voice in the Squad.
She spent the fall blaming AIPAC and Republicans for that defeat instead of her own record.
Tuesday's primary is a straight rematch, and Bush chose the closing days of the campaign to lay out her Constitution plan on a friendly podcast.
It is a pitch to the most radical slice of the Democrat Party base at the exact moment she needs them most.
Bush is betting St. Louis wants a congresswoman who treats the Constitution as raw material for the trans and abortion lobby.
Wesley Bell has spent the campaign arguing Bush cares more about her own comeback than the district.
Bush's own closing pitch just proved his point better than any ad could.
She did not campaign on lowering costs or fixing St. Louis crime.
She campaigned on rewriting the founding document to lock in the Squad's most divisive causes.
Missouri voters got the pitch in plain English before they ever reached the ballot box.
Tuesday's primary just told them exactly what a third Cori Bush term buys them.
Sources:
- Mariane Angela, "Cori Bush Wants 'Trans Rights,' 'Abortion Rights' Enshrined in Constitution," Breitbart News, Aug. 3, 2026.
- Hannah Grossman, "Cori Bush says abortions are life-saving for 'trans folks' to deal with 'bigotry,' no different than 'Tylenol,'" Fox News, July 18, 2023.
- Nick Arama, "WATCH: Cori Bush's Hot Take on Trans People and Abortion Provokes Hilarious Reaction From Jamie Raskin," RedState, July 18, 2023.
