{"id":1545626,"date":"2022-07-09T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545626"},"modified":"2022-07-09T07:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T11:34:16","slug":"dont-draft-our-daughters-for-front-line-combat-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-draft-our-daughters-for-front-line-combat-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Draft Our Daughters for Front-Line Combat Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdont-draft-our-daughters-for-front-line-combat-duty%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545626&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Last year, thanks to hard work from dozens of conservative groups, a handful of congressional Republicans managed to kill a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have required America\u2019s young women to register for the draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Yet, here we are again. With the Senate Armed Services Committee passing this provision in the yearly NDAA bill and the House set to consider legislation next week, we will see if Democrats\u00a0\u2014\u00a0with the potential support of Republicans \u2014\u00a0will once again push forward legislation to force our daughters to the front lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/640\/320\/1Army.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Will the Army draft women to fill combat roles is the subject of congressional debate.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Will the Army draft women to fill combat roles is the subject of congressional debate.\n      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This legislation will harm the American family, undermine our military readiness, and is an overt attempt to advance a radical agenda that seeks to eliminate all distinctions between men and women. Republicans knew that last year; it\u2019s no different now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/military-recruitment-lags-record-incentives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MILITARY RECRUITMENT LAGS DESPITE REDUCED TARGETS, RECORD INCENTIVES TO BOOST INTEREST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s victory proved that if conservatives fight for family values in the NDAA, we can win. There\u2019s no excuse for any member of Congress \u2014\u00a0especially a Republican \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/chip-roy-female-draft-ndaa-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to support an NDAA that,<\/a> in the name of &#8220;national defense&#8221; sets the stage to conscript mothers and daughters to the battlefield. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not, and has never been, a question of whether women can serve effectively in our armed forces; the answer is obviously yes. Thousands already do voluntarily, and they deserve the utmost commendation for their service and sacrifice. But today there are around\u202f17 million\u202fmen of draft-registration age and some 60 million of &#8220;fighting age&#8221; (18 to 49), the vast majority of whom are able-bodied.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many of my colleagues argue that women will never be sent to the front lines. Oh, really? Much of the left can no longer define what a woman is and is working to destroy any and all distinctions between the sexes. They teach children that girls can become boys, boys can become girls, and that men can become pregnant. Even in the military itself, they applaud radical gender ideology and force biological women to share living space with anyone else who identifies as one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Worse, many of those same colleagues say we won\u2019t need to draft women unless it\u2019s &#8220;really bad.&#8221; Well, which is it? If it\u2019s &#8220;really bad,&#8221; then everyone\u2019s going to the front lines. The truth is that this a question of whether we as a nation, and we as Republicans will unnecessarily force young women to fight wars through conscription in the name of political correctness. That\u2019s it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/west-point-cadets-taught-critical-race-theory-addressing-whiteness-docs-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chasing &#8220;equity&#8221; over military readiness<\/a> threatens the fabric of our nation by playing into the radical left\u2019s anti-science gender ideology; it will undermine the very security of our nation that our armed forces are charged with defending. Men and women are innately different, they bring with them different physical capabilities. While of course some women are as capable as men on the battlefield, on average they are not. In 2015, the U.S. Marine Corps spent over $30 million to conduct a study on this question, unsurprisingly finding that all-male units outperformed mixed-gender units nearly 70% of the time in ground combat tasks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or more recently, take into consideration the controversial Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT). After changing the test multiple times, the Army decided to drop the gender-neutral standards after\u202fnearly 50%\u202fof female soldiers could not pass previous versions. More disturbingly, these standards were eventually dropped for physically demanding combat roles. When Senator Tom Cotton, R-AR, asked about this decision, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth\u202fadmitted\u202fthey abandoned these standards because &#8220;we didn\u2019t want to disadvantage any subgroups.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incorporating women into the draft is just another step in the left\u2019s long quest to eliminate distinctions between the sexes and impose their extreme agenda on the rest of us. They failed last year, but if they fail again this year, they\u2019ll try again next year. They won\u2019t give up, and we can\u2019t, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A military that cares more about &#8220;equity&#8221; than military readiness will waste no time putting your daughter on the front lines.\u202fThe purpose of the Selective Service is to ensure the availability of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/biden-ramps-military-deployments-across-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">combat replacements for casualties<\/a> on the battlefield. When the United States is in peril, not pulling replacements from the strongest subsection of our population disadvantages all\u00a0\u2014\u00a0including &#8220;subgroups.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans must never fall prey to the notion that we &#8220;must-pass&#8221; legislation at the expense of our future and must always stand up for our daughters and our country\u2019s security. Last year\u2019s NDAA showed that we can win this fight, if we commit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Word on the street is that there is an understanding by Republicans that drafting women is not the right path to take. Lord willing, that is the case. But make no mistake: if Congress passes legislation to register our daughters to be drafted, it will be Republicans who make it happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/r\/chip-roy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM REP. CHIP ROY<\/u><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p>Republican Chip Roy represents Texas&#8217; 21st Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. He is the former first assistant attorney general of Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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