ClydeR
12-08-2021, 04:26 PM
No, says Congress.
A draft of the Defense Authorization Bill currently being considered by Congress has dropped a provision that would've required women to volunteer for the military draft. Missouri Senator Josh Hawley and some other congressional Republicans opposed the provision.
More... (https://www.newsweek.com/defense-bill-would-require-women-sign-draft-despite-gop-objections-1656610)
On October 29, Hawley filed an amendment to block the proposal for including women in the draft.
"It is wrong to force our daughters, mothers, wives, and sisters to fight our wars," Hawley wrote in a November 1 statement. "[Women] have played a vital role in defending America at every point in our nation's history. But volunteering for military service is not the same as being forced into it, and no woman should be compelled to do so."
Five other Republican U.S. Senators—Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi and Roger Marshall of Kansas—also signed onto Hawley's amendment.
Do you understand why some members of Congress believe that drafting women would be bad?
Left-wing efforts to expand the draft to women — or to “expand the draft beyond men,” in the careful gender-inclusive wording of Politico — have gained momentum since the Pentagon made women eligible for all combat roles in 2015. The successful move to kill the measure is a victory for conservatives, and one worth celebrating. Republicans who supported — and continue to support — the idea that we should be drafting our mothers and daughters to war are misguided, as National Review’s editors have argued on multiple occasions. Not only would a conscription of women be imprudent, hurting our military readiness in the name of “social engineering” — it would be immoral. We should celebrate, rather than work to eliminate, the differences between men and women. A gender-inclusive draft would be one more step in the wrong direction in that regard. Kudos to the Republicans who recognized the importance of keeping the provision from becoming law.
More... (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-conservative-victory-against-the-push-to-draft-women/)
A draft of the Defense Authorization Bill currently being considered by Congress has dropped a provision that would've required women to volunteer for the military draft. Missouri Senator Josh Hawley and some other congressional Republicans opposed the provision.
More... (https://www.newsweek.com/defense-bill-would-require-women-sign-draft-despite-gop-objections-1656610)
On October 29, Hawley filed an amendment to block the proposal for including women in the draft.
"It is wrong to force our daughters, mothers, wives, and sisters to fight our wars," Hawley wrote in a November 1 statement. "[Women] have played a vital role in defending America at every point in our nation's history. But volunteering for military service is not the same as being forced into it, and no woman should be compelled to do so."
Five other Republican U.S. Senators—Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi and Roger Marshall of Kansas—also signed onto Hawley's amendment.
Do you understand why some members of Congress believe that drafting women would be bad?
Left-wing efforts to expand the draft to women — or to “expand the draft beyond men,” in the careful gender-inclusive wording of Politico — have gained momentum since the Pentagon made women eligible for all combat roles in 2015. The successful move to kill the measure is a victory for conservatives, and one worth celebrating. Republicans who supported — and continue to support — the idea that we should be drafting our mothers and daughters to war are misguided, as National Review’s editors have argued on multiple occasions. Not only would a conscription of women be imprudent, hurting our military readiness in the name of “social engineering” — it would be immoral. We should celebrate, rather than work to eliminate, the differences between men and women. A gender-inclusive draft would be one more step in the wrong direction in that regard. Kudos to the Republicans who recognized the importance of keeping the provision from becoming law.
More... (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-conservative-victory-against-the-push-to-draft-women/)