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.”
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