Congress Scraps 'Draft Our Daughters'

A controversial amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, Congress’s yearly defense policy package, would have required young women to register for the draft. On Tuesday night, Armed Services Committee staffers made known that this “draft our daughters” amendment, as critics call it, had failed in committee negotiations.

The version of the defense bill that the Senate passed in June included the Selective Service expansion. But it was California representative Duncan Hunter who had initially proposed it in the House Armed Services Committee—hoping to spark a discussion.