Why is it that you insist on equating "draft" with "combat"? "Draft" equates with "service," the same sort of service they have been performing since the end of the draft in 1974.
I do not support drafting women to put rifles in their hands, 100lb packs on their backs, and shove them to the front lines. However, I do support drafting them only in time of national emergency to perform support tasks, and free up able bodied MEN for the front line roles.
The only way to draft women, is to register them first.
I understand the distinction. There are forces attempting to get women into combat roles, and I believe it is inevitable due to everything ranging from political correctness to the desire to promote women into the upper echelons of military rank.
I am not opposed to drafting women, but that isn’t really the question at stake, in my opinion. We have to ask the question: what is the push we see right now? It isn’t to draft women. The push is to introduce women to combat roles.
I think everyone will likely agree that women are going to be introduced into direct combat roles (infantry, artillery, etc) long before the draft issue is even discussed.
If women are already in combat roles by the time that discussion rolls around, it will be a moot point. And they will.
I simply think the argument of “They want equality, we should give it to them in spades” is not the right way to decide this issue of drafting women.
I feel the same way you do, I believe women have in the past, can right now, and will in the future be able to serve their country honorably in the military. I just think when that time in the future arrives where a draft is implemented, we will have let the camel’s nose in the tent.