Congresswoman Miller Introduces The Don't Draft Our Daughters Resolution
WASHINGTON -Today, Congresswoman Mary Miller (IL-15) introduced a resolution in opposition to attempts by Congress to mandate the registration of women for the Selective Service System. Congresswoman Miller’s Don't Draft our Daughters resolution is a response to a newly added provision to the Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that will require women to register for the draft.
"The Democrats’ plan to keep your family safe is to open our southern border, defund the police, allow the Taliban to seize US weapons and release al Qaeda prisoners, and draft your daughters to fight when a disaster eventually happens," Miller said. "This is madness. The primary responsibility of government is to keep your family safe, and Democrats have failed miserably at that.”
Earlier this summer, the Senate Armed Services Committee included in the markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2022 a provision that will require women to register for the draft. The House plans to markup the FY22 NDAA on September 1, 2021.
The draft, in its rare instances of use, primarily serves as a pipeline to replace combat forces.
"Women serve in critical roles in our military, and American women should be empowered to join the armed forces voluntarily, but our daughters should not be drafted and forced to fight," Miller said. "This policy is wrong, and we have a duty to protect our daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers from the draft."
This resolution is the House companion to Senator Lee’s in the Senate.
The current cosponsors and outside groups supporting this resolution are:
Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX)
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO)
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN)
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC)
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)
Concerned Women For America LAC
Family Research Council
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC): "To state the obvious, I am eternally grateful for the brave women who serve in our all-volunteer Armed Forces. Also obvious is that if another draft were ever necessary in the future, the involuntary conscription of women into military service would have profound implications for the United States. That’s why it’s troubling that the Senate Armed Services Committee quietly included provisions requiring women to register for the draft in the 2022 NDAA. As a nation, we have not even begun to properly discuss or consider the effects that drafting women would have on our society or military readiness. I want to thank Rep. Mary Miller for her leadership on this issue.”
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA): "Our nation is eternally grateful to those who serve in the U.S. Military, especially to those who have sacrificed their lives. Just as we have an obligation to honor our warriors, we also have a duty to protect our daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers from the draft. Forcing women to register for the draft is dangerous and morally wrong. I thank my friend, Representative Miller, for her leadership on this important issue.
Penny Nance, CEO and President of Concerned Women for America LAC: “Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee celebrates the many critical roles women embrace in every stage of life, but we reject the baseless notion that women’s equality means sameness with men. The Selective Service is not a social experiment. Forcing young women against their will to fight on the frontlines ignores God-given distinctions between the sexes that have everything to do with military readiness in a wartime crisis. We applaud Rep. Mary Miller’s leadership in opposing such a reckless reversal in policy and urge members of Congress to take a strong stand against drafting our daughters.”
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX): “Under no circumstances should Congress decide to draft our nation's daughters. I applaud the heroic women who have and continue to freely and selflessly choose service in our armed forces, but I refuse to stand by and allow members of this body to force that duty upon our mothers, sisters and daughters. I am proud to join my friend Rep. Miller in introducing this resolution."
Mary Beth Waddell, J.D, Director of Federal Affairs, Family and Religious Liberty, Family Research Council: "FRC is grateful for both House and Senate action to express opposition to requiring women to register for the draft. While we honor and are grateful for the women who serve voluntarily, there is no military or national security reason to require that women who do not wish to serve register for the draft. This is, in fact, a shameful political move to advance a political and social agenda.
Women currently serve honorably and proudly, but conscripting our daughters and wives into the harshest and most austere of combat conditions to replace those who have died on the front lines of war would require that several significant considerations, beyond winning the war, would have to be taken into account on the battlefield. This social and political experiment will harm military readiness, lethality, and unit cohesion when our armed forces can least afford it."
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO): “Joe Biden just armed Taliban terrorists who go out of their way to rape, torture, and kill women just for being women. We should never draft our daughters, especially with the prospect of them having to go fight to clean up this catastrophe.”
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