The White House (Obama) Says Women Should Be Required to Register for the Military Draft

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[TigerClaws]

The White House and the Pentagon on Thursday respectively announced support for requiring women in the U.S. to register for the military draft when they turn 18, USA Today reports.

The announcement makes Barack Obama the first president since Jimmy Carter to endorse universal registration for the Selective Service. The White House previously was pretty neutral on the subject, but in a new statement to USA Today, Ned Price, a spokesman for the National Security Council, revealed the administration had changed its stance:

“As old barriers for military service are being removed, the administration supports — as a logical next step — women registering for the Selective Service.”

The Pentagon echoed Obama’s support, with spokesman Peter Cook saying in a statement, “It makes sense for women to register for Selective Service just as men must.”

The statement came the day before the House of Representatives is set to vote on a defense bill that would remove a provision that passed the Senate to add women to the draft, according to USA Today. Instead, a compromise version wants a commission to investigate whether women should be included in the Selective Service or if the draft should even exist.

Obama apparently supports an all-volunteer military force and has no intention to reinstate the draft. Instead, the White House hopes to demonstrate gender equality in the armed services and to foster a sense of public service by requiring women to register.

[unlearner]

“This is no longer the case, so in the interests of fairness, women should be required to register for the draft.”

So we’ll put you down as on Obama’s side on this issue. Also, you are on the radical left’s side.

Most of us around here don’t care for taking bad ideas and making them worse in the interest of “fairness”.

[Spktyr]

As it is now, either women are legally obligated to register per the Supreme Court or NOBODY should be required to register.

The point is that if all women are required to register for the draft, *they* will demand to be taken back out of frontline combat units so they won’t have to go to war (and thus won’t have to register). If you just revert without that, you’ll never hear the end of it from the feminazis.

Change only occurs when people feel the pain.

[Spktyr]

That would honestly be a better use. Nobody should be exempt from the draft if the country needs them in a war, but that doesn’t mean that women should be sent to the front. There are plenty of military jobs they can do to free up men.

But, until we have that common sense, get women lined up to register for the draft and tell them they’re required to register and may be sent into frontline combat whether they want to or not. That will end this really damn fast and it will be at the instigation of the women.

[Secret Agent Man]

I am actually for it exactly the way I described it. I would let the military use them where they needed them the most, and that will mean not front line.

But i think if we are all going to be equal and have equal rights, we all need to have equal responsibilities that come along with those rights. Besides to free up men for fighting military would need some qualified women for military jobs here and in the logistics chains.

[Jamestown1630]

I have often thought that it was a mistake that we ended any kind of compulsory service.

There could be a female version for Civil Defense.

It could be very useful, and broadening for the young people.

-JT

[unlearner]

Or you can just keep it simple and vote conservative so that our representatives will continue building an entirely volunteer military as it should be.

We’ve had eight long years that show that implementing bad policies to make people “feel the pain” does NOT get them to change for the better. They just double down on stupid and implement even worse policies.

We’ve had 43 years of abortion atrocities and lots and lots of PAIN, but liberals keep advocating for MORE abortion, not less.

Supporting a military draft of women is just plain dumb.

Further, a lot of people, including myself, are fully prepared to take up arms against a government that FORCES women to go fight in war.

For my female friends and family members, I encourage them to get skilled at using guns. But they should never be forced to serve in the military or enter combat.