There are many support positions that women can fill in the military. Why shouldn’t they be drafted too, if a draft is ever called?
In addition, drafting women but not putting them in combat would, from a political & judicial standpoint, create the same quagmire that gay civil unions have created. We're told that permitting them will give the homosexuals something they want without giving them the full recognition of marriage. An appropriate “compromise”, right? No, because once civil unions are in place, we're immediately told that they're a form of apartheid and create a two-tier system which can only be alleviated by full-scale same sex “marriage”. The same thing would happen with a draft that sent men into combat and women into support positions.
During WWII, it was expected that fathers would go off to fight in the war while children would be raised by their mothers. Fatherhood would not excuse one from the draft except in unusual circumstances (I'm not sure, for example, whether a widower who had no other relatives to look after his children would be drafted). Exempting mothers from the draft would cause pregnancy rates to skyrocket at a less-than-optimal time.
“There are many support positions that women can fill in the military. Why shouldn’t they be drafted too, if a draft is ever called?’
I don’t agree with you. This is off limits. Men need to be men, that’s the bottom line. I had the funniest situation happen about a year ago. I have a friend who has definite liberal tendencies. Last year you should have heard her going ballistic when her son had to sign up for the draft. It was hysterical, I know, because she asked to use my computer so that her son could sign up so he wouldn’t “get arrested.” You should have heard her go off! She agrees with you too. But it’s not because she is a conservative, that’s for sure.