Senate Approves Women Registering for Draft Act

[sayuridoll]

Washington (CNN) - Women may soon be required to register for the military draft.

The Senate overwhelmingly passed a $602 billion defense bill Tuesday that included an amendment that would require women to register for the draft -- also known as the selective service -- for the first time in history.

The National Defense Authorization Act passed

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[chaya]

Get some lady tags up in thur

[eveofrevolution]

[sayuridoll]

there are too many tags to search through ok and I never know what to add but yes I will

[eveofrevolution]

[sayuridoll]

I looked under "military draft" and not simply "draft". They are mentioned, but I didn't consider it to be that important enough to include in a tag. For some odd reason when I was making this post I kept thinking of "females" and not "women" so I didn't bother looking. Idk. Sorry.

[dumpweeds]

"The idea that we should forcibly conscript young girls into combat to my mind makes little or no sense,

this patronizing motherfucker. what about the young BOYS? how come 18 year old boys are considered men but women are considered girls?

I'm anti-draft, btw, and think it needs to be gotten rid of entirely

[eveofrevolution]

[kukamine]

mte

[lightframes]

MTE. We don't need the draft.

[magedragonfire]

"The idea that we should forcibly conscript young girls into combat to my mind makes little or no sense," he said

Yeah, and forcibly conscripting young boys is better, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[kukamine]

mte

[itscaelsday]

According to the Selective Service website, "Almost all male U.S. citizens and male immigrants, who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service."

I havent registered or anything. Oop. Good thing im 26 in 10 more months.

[mimblexwimble]

Both my brothers are between those ages--they're citizens but they haven't lived in the states since they were very young. I had no idea they needed to register, either. They're coming over for college soon, so hopefully they can register then without penalty...

[tinylegacies]

As long as they register before they turn 26, there shouldn't be any issue for them. They also may not be required because of living out of the country, but I'm not sure how that works. I know there are a handful of exceptions, but I don't know the specifics.

[ioplokon]

It's possible, depending on your state, that you were automatically registered when you got a driver's license. If you genuinely aren't registered, it's super unlikely that you'll ever be prosecuted, but you also can't have a federal job or federal funding for university/job training, and in some states you also can't get drivers licenses, state funding for education, & some other things. Once you turn 26 you literally can /no longer/ register, so you're basically locked out of these things for good.

I'm a woman & it never came up for me (obvs), but a lot of my friends are either non-compliant or conscientious objectors (like they've got a file ready if they ever get drafted), so we've talked a bit about what happens when you aren't registered. I think not registering is a fine decision to make, but since you are basically stuck with that once you're 26, it's important to know what the effects are!