They would try to explain it away for other reasons, but it appears that an upswelling of American anger about plans to require women to register for the draft has caused Congress to drop the plan. A vote in the House on the new defense bill, which does not contain the draft provision, is expected by Friday, followed by action in the Senate next week.
Congress, at least over the last 30 years or so, has continuously come up with lame ideas that just don't make common sense. We haven't had ANY draft in decades... In fact, Nixon ended the draft in 1973. I think that means the requirement for males to register for the draft is just a formality; in recent decades, I have never heard of anyone being charged and prosecuted for failure to register.
So, why the move to require women to register in the first place? Some zombie bureaucrat evidently decided along the way that it would be discriminatory to require men, and not women, to register for the draft. The lamebrains in Congress bought into the idea. But now, they're suddenly doing everything they can to distance themselves from the proposal.
They're not to blame; that idiot bureaucrat, who ever he/she is, is to blame.
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