Senate Democrats Put ‘Draft Women’ Clause in National Defense Authorization Act

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Senate Democrats Put ‘Draft Women’ Clause in National Defense Authorization Act

Kristina Wong 24 Jun 2024

Senate Democrats have added a provision to a yearly defense bill that would require women to sign up for the draft, prompting opposition from Republicans.

The yearly bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, authorizes the fiscal year budget for the Pentagon, but it also authorizes policies and programs at the Pentagon. The House and Senate each pass a version that gets meshed together into one.

This year, Democrats — who control the Senate and the committee drafting the defense bill — included a provision in their version that would require women to register for the draft, according to The Hill.

The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Roger Wicker (MS), said he will try to strip it out of the bill. “I hope it will fall out, either on the floor or in conference,” he told The Hill.

Committee Chairman Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), an Army veteran, told CNN he could not understand why the issue is a “sore point.”

“We have had amendments that would have required women to register and we can’t get any real traction on the other side. We are going to try to do it. It makes sense. The military now is a mixed force,” he told CNN.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/24/senate-democrats-propose-requiring-women-sign-up-for-draft/

[mountaineer]

GLENN BECK: ... So what the hell is happening?

And this just seems to have come out of nowhere. The most outspoken voices on this, are Chip Roy. And Mike Lee. And Mike is -- Mike is with us now. Can you please tell us what is happening with the draft stuff, Mike? Why is this happening?

MIKE LEE: Yeah, look, the draft our daughters agenda has no place in our national defense. I think what they're trying to do. They're trying to engage in this, this sort of radical egalitarian exercise, where for aesthetics purposes, we're deciding to just show how woke we are. How open-minded we are.  ...

Well, okay. So the purpose of having a military and therefore the purpose of having a draft, to staff the military, is to break things and kill people, just to put it very bluntly.

And so you don't -- you don't put women out there, as long as able-bodied men exist, and are able to fight.

For all sorts of reasons, including the fact that you -- you've got -- that men have this biological advantages in war, that need to be utilized. And it just sends all the wrong messages.
To our own people, and to whatever country or entity that we're fighting.

That our -- our able-bodied men are not all going to go out there.

We will send women instead.

Sends all the wrong messages. And that's not going to work well. ...

https://www.glennbeck.com/radio/democrats-want-draft-our-daughters

[DefiantMassRINO]

Broads do okay in the Israeli Defense Forces.

I guess GOP thinks women are only useful as baby incubators.

How long before GOP wants to repeal the 19th Amendment, Women's Right to Vote?

If women are not required to register for the Draft - there is no equity among men and women, the Selective Service should be eliminated

[Wingnut]

Broads do okay in the Israeli Defense Forces.

I guess GOP thinks women are only useful as baby incubators.

How long before GOP wants to repeal the 19th Amendment, Women's Right to Vote?

Israeli women are a class above American women.  In America we raise low rent whores who want to be tictoc stars for clicks.  The only clicks the Israeli women want is the sound that a trigger makes when they make a sipperhead out of a Hamas fighter.

[Kamaji]

I got no problem with drafting women.

[ScottinVA]

No problem with drafting women.  They want equality, so this is their opportunity to see what that equality entails.

[GtHawk]

I got no problem with drafting women.

Even if they were never put on the front line there's a ton of jobs they could do, there's no reason not to. It is ridiculous that women demand equality......until it's actual equality.