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July 29, 2004 Some people fear that if George W. Bush gets re- elected, he’ll reinstate the draft. I have mixed feelings about the draft, but I mostly support it. However, I don’t think it should ever include women. Not because I am one. Not because I have an eighteen year-old daughter (who is already serving in the Army). I have always supported equal rights between men and women in every area but war because women have a wildcard that easily earns them a free pass from combat: their ability to become pregnant. I can’t think of a better way to encourage more unwed mothers and, later, unwanted children – just when the numbers are decreasing – than to force women into combat. Of course, some women will rise to duty, but others will engage in careless sex to purposely become pregnant. Much of our taxes will be spent on the paperwork and proof process, alone, to excuse these young women from serving. Not to mention rises in welfare, healthcare, and foster care costs. Is getting a few good women into combat worth all the wasted tax dollars that will undoubtedly be spent? I also see a bigger outbreak in STD’s, including AIDS, since women who want to become pregnant aren’t going to encourage condom use. I worry about a generation of children born under those circumstances, many of whom would be fatherless. Also, some women would only stay pregnant long enough to get excused from the draft, then abort the baby. Isn’t our country facing enough moral family dilemmas? Another reason to never draft women is simple anatomy. A woman’s eggs are formed during gestation. If they become fried during exposure to chemical warfare or radiation, she’s done. Either she’ll be barren or have children with birth defects. Men, whose bodies constantly produce new sperm, have a better chance of flushing out defected sperm over time. I know Israel drafts women, but this is America, Land of Lawsuits. Do we really want to increase the lawyers’ workload by including a client load of draft-dodging women? (As a newspaper reporter, it sickens me that more ink would be wasted to report creative lawsuits!) Or fill the trial courts years later with lawsuits involving children born with birth defects to mothers who were forced to serve in combat? I will vote for Bush this November, even if he grows hooves and a tail, because of his intolerance to terrorists, his tax breaks, and his moral issues. Hopefully, if he reinstates the draft, his administration realizes nothing good can come from drafting women. I trust his distaste for more lawsuits and an understanding that God didn’t build women for combat will lead him to make the right decision. ------------ About the author: Karyn Hughes has a fiction book published by Authorhouse entitled, Scattered Dreams, which is about a newly single mother who battles ADHD. Email: karynlilly@comcast.net Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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