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'They can go to hell!': Right rejects push to force women to register for the draft
2022-06-17
[Washington Examiner] Some Republicans in Congress are going to war against their own party, coming out in full force against a renewed effort to make women register for the military draft.

A coalition of 11 Republican senators led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) lambasted a proposed amendment to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act by Senate Democrats that would require women to register with the Selective Service System, putting them at odds with even some members of their own party who voted in favor of the amendment.

The coalition urged Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) "in the strongest possible terms not to use this year’s NDAA to try to force America’s women to register for the military draft" in a letter on Wednesday. Revisiting a failed effort to add a similar provision to the 2022 NDAA would be "a grave mistake" and would "needlessly inject divisive social policies into important debates over our national security," the senators argued.

The Senate Armed Services Committee voted in favor of adding the provision with the support of seven committee Republicans hours after Hawley’s letter was released, leaving the Right fuming. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), an outspoken opponent of expanding the draft to women, excoriated Republicans who voted in favor of the proposal.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  Biologists needed.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2022-06-17 20:52  

#8  How can you tell they are women?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2022-06-17 15:01  

#7  Allied forces were shocked that at the last minute Hitler drafted women and children onto the battle field.

And here we have the same debased mindset in low IQ elderly fat f*cks.
Posted by: Black Charlie Slairt1430   2022-06-17 13:45  

#6  ^ Only way to break socialism is to not play the other guy's game. Needless to say, that requires some backbone, intensity and teamwork.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-17 12:51  

#5  Any deal where you get rights and privilege without obligation and duty is sweet for the individual and unfair for the guy carrying the extra load. Breaking the accustomed habit is hard, and reasoning rarely overcomes entitlement.
Essentially, the argument is" we are all equal EXCEPT when its better for me to not be".
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-06-17 12:45  

#4  The My Body My Choice crowd should be required to append "But when I get sick, that's on you taxpaying rubes." to their signs and media posts.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-17 08:10  

#3  ^^^^^ BRAVO BRAVO, my body my choice is bullshit. I'm sure there are alot of guys in graves all over the world who would disagree.
Posted by: Chris   2022-06-17 08:07  

#2  You want equal rights? You get equal responsibilities.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-06-17 08:06  

#1  You can't continue the lie that we are equal but exempt an entire group from the responsibilities that go along with citizenship.

If you look at the very first Militia Act of 1792, those who were defined as the militia were also the ones who had the franchise of the vote. When the militia act of 1862 was modified to include males of African descent it was followed by the 15th Amendment extending the franchise to that group as well. In short, the vote and the obligation of duty were one and the same. That link was broken by the 19th Amendment in 1920 that expanded the vote without obligation to one large group. For men, its never been "my body, my choice".
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-06-17 06:17  

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