Women In Selective Service Draft
Ashley Sullivan
Romina Kline
English 111-Paper 3 Draft
29 March 2014
Women Registering in Selective Service Draft
Women should be required to register for the draft at age 18 just as males do. For many years now women have been fighting for equal rights. Now we finally have them, yet some women get upset when asked to perform a job fit for a man. An example of this would be women in the military. Women are not just for cooking and cleaning and bearing children anymore. There were protests for a while saying women were not fit for combat that they were too emotional to be put in any kind of stressful situation. So when asked if women should register for the draft it should come as no shocker when most agree they should. Today woman serve …show more content…
in all military branches voluntarily. The Selective Service System website mentioned in “Selective Service System: Registration Process” that on January 24, 2013 defense secretary Leon E. Panetta announced that women would finally be allowed in combat, Even though they are allowed in the military, they are still limited in what they are allowed to do The article Must women register for the draft?written by Kate Brannen mentions Panetta stating he does not know what changes this would bring to the selective service. Now we get to the bigger issue of whether they should register for the draft as men do. Women voluntarily join the military but since they want to be treated as equal to men they should they be required to register for the draft at 18 such as males do. Why should they not, equal rights means equal opportunities it is only fair.
The Selective Service System website also mentioned that the United States came close to drafting women during World War 1, because there were a shortage of nurses.
Instead an increase of volunteers made the draft unnecessary. Today women are more than just nurses; they are soldiers to. The exclusion of women from the draft was challenged by several men saying it was gender based discrimination (which it is), but the Supreme Court did not agree and it did not change anything. Women should be included in the draft everything a man has to lose so does a woman. We are all people we all have feelings and a conscience. We all know what is right and what is wrong. Now we do have some women that would not be fit for combat not just because they are obese or to small but because of their personality, “I’m too good to get dirty” will not get you very far. If the time came and they were drafted that personality would change because there life would be on the line. There are homosexual men that act like females that by law have to register they would not be fit for combat either I suppose but they are men and have no choice. Everyone has that survival instinct that emerges when we need it to because everyone wants to …show more content…
survive.
There is a question online that states “why do males have to register for the draft and women are not required to?
Is this fair when we have equal opportunity for all?” this will never be a yes or no question because half agree and the other half is against it. One person said not all women are physically or mentally up for the job. As stated earlier that is a huge factor but are all men physically or mentally up for the job? No, we are stuck in the mindset that men are supposed to still protect us at the cost of their own life whenever there is a problem. That was then this is now women need to be prepared because one day they are not going to have another choice and the United States will never go down without a fight. So if it means drafting women next it will be done. Women are not too fragile we do a lot more than just chores and taking care of kids. When a man gets drafted and he has a wife and kids, the kids still lose their father the wife still loses her husband. Now switch it around a women has a husband and kids, if the women gets drafted does the husband not lose a wife and do the kids not lose their mother? No matter what if it came down to us needing to draft people into the military a mother, father, aunt, uncle, cousin, son or daughter someone will be lost. Regardless if they are male or female someone is
lost.
The constitution may never change this law. That is ok even though women do not have to register they still sign up for the military service every single day voluntarily. We as women are stronger then we look. Bill Briggs, A NBC contributor, stated in an article he wrote “ladies, for the first time ever, Uncle Sam soon may be pointing at you.”
Works Cited
Brannen, Kate. "POLITICO." POLITICO. 13 Jan. 2013. Web. 26 March 2014
.
Briggs, Bill. "Push for All Younger Women to Register with Selective Service Gaining Steam."NBC News, 29 Jan. 2013. Web. .
"Selective Service System: Registration Information." Selective Service System: Registration Information, Web. 25 Feb. 2014. .
" The Premier Online Debate Website, n.d. Web. .
Romina Kline
English 111-Paper 3 Draft
29 March 2014
Women Registering in Selective Service Draft
Women should be required to register for the draft at age 18 just as males do. For many years now women have been fighting for equal rights. Now we finally have them, yet some women get upset when asked to perform a job fit for a man. An example of this would be women in the military. Women are not just for cooking and cleaning and bearing children anymore. There were protests for a while saying women were not fit for combat that they were too emotional to be put in any kind of stressful situation. So when asked if women should register for the draft it should come as no shocker when most agree they should. Today woman serve …show more content…
in all military branches voluntarily. The Selective Service System website mentioned in “Selective Service System: Registration Process” that on January 24, 2013 defense secretary Leon E. Panetta announced that women would finally be allowed in combat, Even though they are allowed in the military, they are still limited in what they are allowed to do The article Must women register for the draft?written by Kate Brannen mentions Panetta stating he does not know what changes this would bring to the selective service. Now we get to the bigger issue of whether they should register for the draft as men do. Women voluntarily join the military but since they want to be treated as equal to men they should they be required to register for the draft at 18 such as males do. Why should they not, equal rights means equal opportunities it is only fair.
The Selective Service System website also mentioned that the United States came close to drafting women during World War 1, because there were a shortage of nurses.
Instead an increase of volunteers made the draft unnecessary. Today women are more than just nurses; they are soldiers to. The exclusion of women from the draft was challenged by several men saying it was gender based discrimination (which it is), but the Supreme Court did not agree and it did not change anything. Women should be included in the draft everything a man has to lose so does a woman. We are all people we all have feelings and a conscience. We all know what is right and what is wrong. Now we do have some women that would not be fit for combat not just because they are obese or to small but because of their personality, “I’m too good to get dirty” will not get you very far. If the time came and they were drafted that personality would change because there life would be on the line. There are homosexual men that act like females that by law have to register they would not be fit for combat either I suppose but they are men and have no choice. Everyone has that survival instinct that emerges when we need it to because everyone wants to …show more content…
survive.
There is a question online that states “why do males have to register for the draft and women are not required to?
Is this fair when we have equal opportunity for all?” this will never be a yes or no question because half agree and the other half is against it. One person said not all women are physically or mentally up for the job. As stated earlier that is a huge factor but are all men physically or mentally up for the job? No, we are stuck in the mindset that men are supposed to still protect us at the cost of their own life whenever there is a problem. That was then this is now women need to be prepared because one day they are not going to have another choice and the United States will never go down without a fight. So if it means drafting women next it will be done. Women are not too fragile we do a lot more than just chores and taking care of kids. When a man gets drafted and he has a wife and kids, the kids still lose their father the wife still loses her husband. Now switch it around a women has a husband and kids, if the women gets drafted does the husband not lose a wife and do the kids not lose their mother? No matter what if it came down to us needing to draft people into the military a mother, father, aunt, uncle, cousin, son or daughter someone will be lost. Regardless if they are male or female someone is
lost.
The constitution may never change this law. That is ok even though women do not have to register they still sign up for the military service every single day voluntarily. We as women are stronger then we look. Bill Briggs, A NBC contributor, stated in an article he wrote “ladies, for the first time ever, Uncle Sam soon may be pointing at you.”
Works Cited
Brannen, Kate. "POLITICO." POLITICO. 13 Jan. 2013. Web. 26 March 2014
.
Briggs, Bill. "Push for All Younger Women to Register with Selective Service Gaining Steam."NBC News, 29 Jan. 2013. Web. .
"Selective Service System: Registration Information." Selective Service System: Registration Information, Web. 25 Feb. 2014. .
" The Premier Online Debate Website, n.d. Web. .