Should women be forced to register with Selective Service as men are?

So why not make them register with selective service?

We can all burn our draft cards together then. :D

Why should anyone be registering for a draft, when the US has not had a legitimate military conflict since Korea?


But yes, women should be subject to the draft if men are.

Well, than again, so would my husband.

but I believe that the way the new draft is set up, women will have to register.

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with new rules that will NOT exempt college students and parents, and is ready to implemented at a moment's notice.

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Who are 'they?'

Can you cite a source for this?

As for "they", here's where you can find info straight for the source:



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the requirement is should apply equally.

Doesn't make sense.

no requirement for either.

I'm not addressing whether the registration is right or not, which is debatable. Just that it be applied equally, whatever it is.

all things aren't equal!
E.R.A. has not passed and until it does I say no. I also say no because I don't think men should be either.

BTW one of the arguments against E.R.A. by the right (Phyllis Schlafly) was that women would be drafted.
I say if we are to be expected to register we damn well better be equal under the Constitution and pass E.R.A.

Without E.R.A. then no on forced registration for women! Why? Because under the Constitution we women aren't equal!
Hell, look at the control S.D. and Tenn. are trying to force on our bodies women are under attack in there own country.

supported by those I oppose.

Otherwise, no.

--Ms. 77%

It might wake a few people up.

if Babs and Jenna had to register, it might wake some folks up.

in *miscarriages*. (This, of course, would require marriage.) These would recur over and over and over for some women all during their child-bearing years. Celeb pols like Babs and Jenna would give interviews about painful is not to have a child but will say they trust god will give them one when the time is right. And, if they do decide to have children, after they've had their quota, they will go back to the miscarriage sham until they're too old for the military.

any more than men do?

This kind of blatant stereotyping is why the state of gender relations in the US is how it is right now.

possible to prevent conflict, especially immoral, unjustified conflicts such as our invasion of Iraq.

As long as there is a draft, both men and women should be subject to it. However, the sad history of "rich man's war, poor man's fight" leads me to believe soldiers should be picked according to income/net worth, a lottery of sorts in which the richer you are, the lower your number, insuring that those fighting really are fighting for "their" country.

It will never happen, but if the sons and daughters of the powerful were most at risk, senseless wars would be extremely difficult for any government to initiate.

Would you exclude a certain amount of retirement savings (possibly exclude 100% in most cases) from the calculation of net worth? Your proposal might increase charitable giving in times of war as people shed wealth to reduce the odds of being drafted.


That is an excellent point. Are you sure that income/net worth is an accurate measure of political power?

. . .training for military service, and when necessary, military deployment. But the primary purpose would be more akin to Americacorps.

At least, I'd love to see Garrison Keillor's notion become a reality:

...to force people into government service. in case you haven't noticed, the governmnet is entirely corrupt. volunteering is one thing, forcing is quite another. the entire concept of forced service is debatable under the BEST of conditions. we're not even close. and for the record, we weren't even close before the current criminal took office.

He's absolutely right that many adolescents could use a few (symbolic) kicks in the pants to replace their narcissism and daydreaming with focus and purpose. I can think of one friend's college dropout kid who lacked the discipline to attend class if the teachers weren't entertaining enough. Now he's bagging groceries and sulking around the house and has absolutely no purpose in life. His Dad was thinking of pushing the kid to join the Coast Guard, thinking THEY don't end up in war zones, until I informed him the Coast Guard is pulling duty at Guantanamo.

On edit: Hi, Don!

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neither men nor women should be forced to register.

Equal is equal.

Yep

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and especially their irritating rich kids.

we have an all volunteer service so what is the point of this anyway, except some jobs for paper pushers?