Women will be required to register for the draft soon, if an amendment in the Senate's defense policy bill stands, the Daily Caller website reports today (June 15, 2016).
The amendment to the Senate's 2017 National Defense Authorization Act requires women who turn 18 on or after January 1, 2018 to register for the selective service.
Sen. John McCain -- chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee -- said: "Every single leader in this country, both men and women, members of the military leadership, believe that it's fair since we opened up all aspects of the military to women that they would also be registering for Selective Services."
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz -- who voted against the bill -- voiced the strongest opposition. "The idea that we should forcibly conscript young girls into combat, to my mind, makes little or no sense," Cruz said. "It is at a minimum a radical proposition. I could not vote for a bill that did so, particularly that did so without public debate."
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