Female Selective Service

The change in policy regarding women in combat and other military occupational specialties, naturally leads to the question of selective service where it is being discussed in the media, and even in presidential election debates. Should this old practice, which serves its purpose in the time of desperate need and crisis, change to include women in its pool of potential soldiers? Current law dictates that all male persons in the United States between the age of eighteen and twenty-five, documented or undocumented, must register for selective service within thirty days of their eighteenth birthday. (sss.gov)
When it comes to the question of female selective service, two groups arise with two very different answers to this not-so-simple policy question. Some people believe that the answer is yes, the draft should include women, and that
Or are the more liberal men and women who truly believe that all people, regardless of sex, can and should be able to fight for our country correct in pursuing equality? Only time will tell if women will truly have an impact on the fighting abilities of our military One thing is certain, and will ever be certain: the United States of America could not be the free country it is today without the brave souls who fought, and died for us in the past and the present. Without those fighters, we would not have rid the land of the unfair taxing King George during the Revolutionary war. We would not have defeated and decimated racial prejudice and slavery during the Civil War. We would not have been able to help support our Allied brothers from Japan, Nazi Germany, and their evil leaders during the Second World War. We would not have been able to help the people in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. We would not have the lives we have