Threats Of Drafting Women Reveal The Lies Of Equality

Three candidates were exposed in the GOP debate Saturday night for falling for political correctness when they said women should be required to register with Selective Service, which means our daughters would be drafted along with our sons in time of war.

Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Chris Christie each supported registering our daughters when asked about recent changes in Department of Defense policy regarding women in combat. The other candidates were not asked their views, though Sen. Ted Cruz sent out a press release following the debate saying it is immoral to draft women.

“We have had enough with political correctness, especially in the military,” Cruz said. “Political correctness is dangerous. And the idea that we would draft our daughters to forcibly bring them into the military and put them in close combat, I think, is wrong. It is immoral. I’m the father of two little girls, they are capable of doing anything they desire, but the idea that their government would forcibly put them in a foxhole doesn’t make any sense at all.”

Rubio, Bush, and Christie are not alone in their support of drafting women. Top Army and Marine officials also want to change the law. Gen. Mark A. Milley, chief of staff of the Army, and Gen. Robert B. Neller, the Marine Corps commandant, said during an Armed Services Committee hearing that because the Pentagon has allowed women to serve in every aspect of military service there is no reason they should not be required to register with the Selective Service.

Currently, all 18- through 25-year-old male U.S. citizens and immigrants, whether documented or undocumented, who reside in the United States are required to register with the Selective Service System. While there have been recent challenges to the constitutionality of excluding women, the Supreme Court ruled in 1981 in Rostker v Goldberg that registering only men did not violate the due process clause of the Constitution.

However, advocates for drafting women (I will refer to it as such because this is what registering with Selective Service ultimately means) have been pushing for a change in the law since Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on December 3, 2015, that the Department of Defense will lift all gender-based restrictions in military services.

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