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GOP senators urge rejection of military draft for women
« on: Sunday, Dec 08, 2024 05:48 am »
GOP senators urge rejection of military draft for women

By SVETLANA SHKOLNIKOVA STARS AND STRIPES •

December 5, 2024

 WASHINGTON — A group of Republican senators is fighting against a legislative proposal long pushed by Democrats to force young women to register for the military draft. The eight senators on Thursday urged the chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services committees to reject a provision that would require men and women to register automatically for the Selective Service System. “America’s daughters, sisters, wives and mothers can decide to join the military themselves,” the Republican senators, led by Josh Hawley of Missouri, wrote in a letter to the committee leaders. The senators — all men — said they strongly opposed a provision in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s draft of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act to expand selective service registration to women, calling the proposal “a tool of liberal social policy.”

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-12-05/women-military-draft-ndaa-republican-senators-16072518.html
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Re: GOP senators urge rejection of military draft for women
« Reply #1 on: Sunday, Dec 08, 2024 05:53 am »
If women want to be like men, they then should be drafted like men.  This is wokeness from the right, chosen because they think the military is now a social engineering platform. :wtf:
“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” Louis D. Brandeis