The Drafting of Women
December 5, 2015
Now that the military has opened up all combat roles to women, the next step is to draft them like men. And that is just what the White House is considering. Under current federal law, men must register within 30 days after their 18th birthday with the Selective Service System and stay registered until they are 26. And since the government hates discrimination in any form, women will have sign up as well.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

