GOP senators push to take out provision in defense bill to draft women in military [View all]
Source: The Hill
12/05/24 5:51 PM ET
Eight Republican senators sent a letter to the top negotiators for the annual defense bill asking them to take out a provision that would require women to register for the Selective Service System (SSS), which compiles a registry that can be used to draft Americans if authorized by Congress or the president in a state of war or other emergency.
In the Thursday letter, led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), the senators said they were in “strong opposition” to the provision in the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would force women to register for the SSS.
While the senators said they understand that “American women have a proud legacy of service” in the country through volunteering, they were concerned that the Biden administration and Democrats were moving to “discard this longstanding tradition and force women to fight in wars against their own will.”
“America’s daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers can decide to join the military themselves,” they wrote. “President Trump ran in part on a platform of avoiding World War III and ending the progressive policies infecting our military.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5025205-senate-republicans-oppose-women-selective-service-system/
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