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Expand Selective Service to women or end it? A call for Congressional hearing April 7, 2021 11:55 AM CDT By Edward Hasbrouck
(Editor’s note: This commentary was brought to the attention of People’s World as an update to the film review by way of updating the issue to the present day.)
As Doug Bandow reported on Antiwar.com Wednesday, March 9, military conscription is a bad idea that just won’t die and right now it’s under active consideration in Congress.
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Monday PM A Supreme Court case challenging the requirement for men, but not women, to register with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft is forcing Congress to make a choice it has been avoiding for decades: End draft registration, or expand it to young women as well as young men.
The choice is not between continuing male-only draft registration (which is likely to be found unconstitutional) and expanding registration to women. The real choice is whether to expand registration to women or to end it entirely. Bills for each of those options were introduced in the last session of Congress, and are likely to be reintroduced within the next few months as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act.
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