Will Women Be Required to Register With the Selective Service?

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco

It took more than 200 years for the United States to allow women to serve in the front lines of military combat. It might not take that long to require women to register for the Selective Service. The ban on women in combat was lifted last January, and with it the question of women being eligible for a possible draft was opened as well.

Truth be told the notion hasn’t occurred to too many people, at least not in public. But it’s a logical next step – that now that women can serve in combat they should also be required to register for the Selective Service. In fact it isn’t a new idea, in 2003 the Selective Service was sued in a Boston District Court for alleged discrimination because it only required men to register.

If it were to happen it would require a congressional act. I spoke recently to Lawrence Romo, Director of the U. S. Selective Service about a possible requirement for women to register with the Selective Service.