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The U.S. Senate has passed a provision that would require women to register for the draft, but don't expect any changes soon:
On Tuesday, the Senate passed a defense authorization bill that would require young women to register for the draft — the latest development in a long-running debate over whether women should sign up for the Selective Service. The provision would apply to women turning 18 in 2018 or later and would impose the same requirements and rules that currently apply to men.
The policy is still far from being law. The House, after considering a similar provision earlier this spring, ultimately passed an authorization bill that omitted it; the two branches of Congress now must resolve the differences between their bills. And the bill faces a veto threat from President Obama over other elements of the legislation, such as the prohibition on closing down the Guantanamo Bay military prison. But the bill's passage brings women a step closer to Selective Service registration — a historic change that has bipartisan support in Congress but is firmly opposed by some conservative lawmakers.
For decades, the U.S. policy of having a draft for men, and not women, was approved as constitutional by the Supreme Court. But as NPR's David Welna reported last year, the court's reasoning relied on the fact that women were barred from combat roles. Now that women are eligible for combat duty, "Congress seems to have lost its court-endorsed rationale for limiting Selective Service registration to males only," David wrote.
Previously: Women Warriors Coming Soon to US Forces
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2016, @04:04PM
Then apparently the National Coalition for Women has a time machine.
The lawsuit was filed against the U.S. Selective Service System in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on April 4, 2013
What's more of issue is the stance of feminist now.
Misrepresenting the positions of NOW over 30 years after the fact is disingenuous.
They were completely silent when 2013 lawsuit took place.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 16 2016, @05:18PM
For over thirty years the largest feminist organization on the planet has supported a female draft
Sorry anti-feminists, you are simply wrong on this one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 16 2016, @05:29PM
Again with the misrepresentation.
Was NOW also a complainant for NCFM lawsuit? Did they offer ANY support in favor?
Might as well be discussing Republicans as the only party against racism since it was the party of Lincoln.
(Score: 1, Troll) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 16 2016, @05:33PM
Was NOW also a complainant for NCFM lawsuit? Did they offer ANY support in favor?
Yes they did. Did you even look at the GP's reference?
From the 1981 NYT article:The case against the all-male military draft was brought by men on the ground that being singled out for compulsory service violated their rights to equal protection. But a number of women's groups have filed briefs with the Supreme Court arguing that the all-male draft also violates the constitutional rights of women.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 16 2016, @05:36PM
On the other hand, as Eleanor Smeal, the president of the National Organization for Women, observed the other day, when she lobbies state legislatures in behalf of the equal rights amendment, male legislators frequently say to her, ''When you women fight in a war, then we'll talk about equal rights.'' 'Argument of Entitlement'
That ''argument of entitlement,'' as Mrs. Smeal calls it, was one of the factors that persuaded her that exclusion from the draft hurt the interests of women.