Senate Democrats Jon Tester (D-MT) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) added language to the annual defense authorization bill requiring women to register for the draft.
"There shouldn’t be women in the draft.
They shouldn’t be forced to serve if they don’t want to," said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) during an appearance on Fox News, calling the provision "insane."
Hawley previously led efforts to strip language requiring women to register for the draft from the defense authorization bill in 2021 and 2022, The Hill reports.
Meanwhile, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has vowed to try and strip the language out of the bill.
"I’m opposed to that. I don’t think this is the time to get into a debate on the floor of either house about that.
We’re not anywhere near implementing a draft, and to me it’s a distraction when we need to be talking about real issues that are immediate," he said, adding "I hope it will fall out, either on the floor or in conference."
On Wednesday, conservative advocacy group Advancing American Freedom wrote a letter to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (KY) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) which declared that "the notion of the United States of America requiring women to register to fight our wars is simply untenable and must be opposed at all costs."
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If you can vote, you can be drafted. Nothing is free. Women want to be at the table when decisions about war are made so they can reap the consequences.
Drafting women into the military, voting or not, is a savage, barbaric, anti-civilizational, anti-family, tyrannical move. It is unspeakably evil that mothers, homeschool moms, people like that, can be sent to bleed and die in some stupid imperialistic war. There are differences between men and women, as much as the left may not want to admit it.
The party for women 1) doesn’t know what one is 2) wants men taking over their sports and now 3) sends them to the front lines
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Good news, first they have to define a woman, so this is a non-starter.
"The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Jack Reed (D-RI), defended the proposed policy change - arguing that women can hold many warfighting positions without serving on the front lines. "
Russian, Chinese, and even Iranian missiles have 100's of miles range.
Fully support women be added to selective service mandate. Many other countries do and we will need a balanced callup of citizens as world conflict continues to escalate due to poor foreign policy and defense industrial base manipulation
Both Slavery and involuntary servitude are illegal under the Thirteenth Amendment. The draft is SLAVERY. It must NEVER be used unless in cases of severe wartime catastrophe when the survival of the Republic depends on it.
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