The defense spending authorization bill passed the Senate with an amendment tacked on that would extend mandatory draft registration to women—and some feminists aren’t having it. You’d think a gender-inclusive Selective Service would be a coup for feminist groups still clinging to the Equal Rights Amendment. Not so.

The fairer sex’s historical exclusion from the draft amounts to “protective status” for women, which labor unions opposed the ERA in order to preserve. But suggest the removal of women’s protective status in the unlikely event the draft’s ever reinstated?