"Draft-Our-Daughters" Thwarted for Another Year.

Email from Family Research Council | December 13, 2024 | Lt. General Wm. G. Boykin, Ret.

[John Leland 1789]

Lt. General William G. Boykin
FRC Action
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Washington, D.C. 20001
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Dear Robert,

I wanted to share some good news regarding the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an important piece of legislation that provides funding and sets policies for the U.S. Department of Defense.

First, the effort to "Draft our Daughters" has been thwarted for another year! Language requiring women to register with the Selective Service (which would make them eligible for any future military drafts) has been removed from this year's NDAA.

In addition, this year's NDAA includes a provision that prohibits taxpayer funding of "gender transition" procedures for the children of service members. This marks the first time a federal law will protect minors from these harmful procedures. It is particularly stunning when you consider that the provision survived the Democrat-controlled Senate. Praise God!

And finally, language that would have expanded in vitro fertilization (IVF) without pro-life safeguards has been removed from this year's NDAA. Our team has been working for months to ensure that federal legislation dealing with IVF includes pro-life protections. We consider the removal of the problematic IVF language a huge victory!

The bill passed the House and will get a Senate vote next week. Please pray that these positive changes will remain in the final bill.

I want to thank everyone who contacted their members of Congress and prayed for this NDAA. I also want to thank you for supporting FRC Action through your prayers, engagement, and giving. You make our work on Capitol Hill advocating for policies consistent with a biblical worldview possible.

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[Bruce Campbells Chin]

But the intellectual elites in Washington along with the woke Pentagon would still go on to carry it out, support or no support.

They're not the ones giving the orders. If Congress decides against it, it's over. Frankly, of the President gVe orders to return to tougher standards, it's also over. So what you need to do is build that pressure on Congress and the President.

If you have a better way to do that than having to make women eligible for the draft, I'm all ears. The alternative is a continued fundamental degradation of the combat ethos.