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Senate Votes to Require Women to Register for the Draft (McConnell, McCain for; Cruz against)
New York Times ^ | June 14, 2016 | JENNIFER STEINHAUER

Posted on 06/15/2016 8:31:52 AM PDT by reaganaut1

In the latest and perhaps decisive battle over the role of women in the military, Congress is embroiled in an increasingly intense debate over whether they should have to register for the draft when they turn 18.

On Tuesday, the Senate approved an expansive military policy bill that would for the first time require young women to register for the draft. The shift, while fiercely opposed by some conservative lawmakers and interest groups, had surprisingly broad support among Republican leaders and women in both parties.

The United States has not used the draft since 1973 during the Vietnam War. But the impact of such a shift, reflecting the evolving role of women in the armed services, would likely be profound.

Under the Senate bill passed on Tuesday, women turning 18 on or after Jan. 1, 2018, would be forced to register for Selective Service, as men must do now. Failure to register could result in the loss of various forms of federal aid, including Pell grants, a penalty that men already face. Because the policy would not apply to women who turned 18 before 2018, it would not affect current aid arrangements.

“The fact is,” said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, “every single leader in this country, both men and women, members of the military leadership, believe that it’s fair since we opened up all aspects of the military to women that they would also be registering for Selective Services.”

The Supreme Court ruled in 1981 that women did not have to register for the draft, noting that they should not face the same requirements as men because they did not participate on the front lines of combat.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 114th; antidefense; conscription; cruz; draft; feminism; homoactivism; mccain; mcconnell; militarywomen; war
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To: reaganaut1

The Republicans who just voted to move toward drafting women should be run out of office on this one thing alone. It’s getting to the point where they’re just as deranged as the Democrats.

A country that murders its own children, glorifies homosexuality, and sends its women off to war, is committing national suicide.

Sadly, the people who are still sane will suffer too.

Stop electing crazy people, America!


81 posted on 06/15/2016 2:06:20 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: billyboy15

Not all women are feminists, jackass! I for one don’t want my daughter in the military voluntarily or especially drafted!

And McCain nor Cruz nor any of the other political sob’s would have to worry about their daughters being called up in a draft anymore than they would have to worry about their sons.


82 posted on 06/15/2016 2:28:09 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Lib-Lickers 2

Because we’re not Israel.


83 posted on 06/15/2016 2:30:01 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Lil Flower

Amen to that.


84 posted on 06/15/2016 2:31:27 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: billyboy15

Bullsh*t!!! Women want to be EQUAL, AND EQUAL means just that!


You seem pretty pleased? Do you have a daughter?


85 posted on 06/15/2016 2:32:58 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: Lil Flower

Sadly you will bear the burden of what your sisters have fought so hRd for all these years.

Deal with it!


86 posted on 06/15/2016 2:34:06 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: magna carta

And we know what the Islamists do to women :(


87 posted on 06/15/2016 2:34:23 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: bushwon

Yes I do.


88 posted on 06/15/2016 2:35:05 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: eekitsagreek

Another poster with a daughter?


89 posted on 06/15/2016 2:35:27 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: Jack Hammer

Who is this “they” you speak of?
Stereotype much.


90 posted on 06/15/2016 2:44:03 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: billyboy15

Well, I am really surprised as you seem damned happy—like haha now women gonna get theirs.

My daughter-in-law has 2 kids, one under 2 and one under 4. Would not want my grandkids to lose their mom...my son is a wonderful dad, but I know he would take a bullet for his wife.

I would not want my daughter fighting on combat detail. BTW, she had an appointment to a military service academy, so not opposed to service.

God made men and women different, I don’t support any of this.


91 posted on 06/15/2016 2:48:21 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: Lil Flower

Not all women are feminists, jackass! I for one don’t want my daughter in the military voluntarily or especially drafted!

And McCain nor Cruz nor any of the other political sob’s would have to worry about their daughters being called up in a draft anymore than they would have to worry about their sons.


Exactly.


92 posted on 06/15/2016 2:50:00 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: reaganaut1

In a sane nation this wouldn’t happen. But Obama wants, Obama gets. A nation that sends it’s women to fight it’s wars is not fit to be called a nation.


93 posted on 06/15/2016 2:50:06 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: ladyjane

or the first time in my life I am disgusted by what our elected officials are doing to us.

Register women for the draft and withdraw their right to bear arms.


Interesting observation!


94 posted on 06/15/2016 2:51:55 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: NKP_Vet

In a sane nation this wouldn’t happen. But Obama wants, Obama gets. A nation that sends it’s women to fight it’s wars is not fit to be called a nation.


As I recall, there have been interviews of men who had served in combat positions, and the men did not want women serving


95 posted on 06/15/2016 2:54:12 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about Liberty versus Tyranny and National Sovereignty versus Globalism👍)
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To: billyboy15

It’s not all women. Conservative WOMEN do not want this, but it’s not as if we have a voice in any election. The RINOS and Dems overrule common sense.

Many of them are the same age group of morons wanting women to register for the draft are the same group that headed for Canada and/or spit on the military after Viet Nam. Hypocrites all of them.


96 posted on 06/15/2016 3:22:33 PM PDT by madison10 (#NeverHillary)
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To: exnavy

You can’t be talking about Lying Ted.


97 posted on 06/15/2016 5:35:58 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: bushwon

From the text of the passage as written, it’s entirely clear to any literate reader that “they” refers to women who ramble on about how much they want to be liberated.

Sorry you missed it.


98 posted on 06/15/2016 6:01:45 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: reaganaut1

Hopefully the House will strike this crap down.


99 posted on 06/15/2016 6:11:38 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: petitfour
"What an evil country we live in."

Agreed. It's time for all good Americans to stop buying anything that we don't need, become more self-sufficient and learn to produce something, each, of good use (as a hobby for now). Building fallout shelters might also be a good idea.


100 posted on 06/15/2016 9:15:12 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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