Two dozen House Republicans are calling for House leadership to remove a provision in the 2025 NDAA that “drafts our daughters.”
The NDAA, or the National Defense Authorization Act, amends the Military Selective Service Act to require the “registration of women for Selective Service.”
The letter, sent to House Speaker Mike Johnson, is written in “opposition to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s heinous decision to advance an NDAA that includes a provision to draft our daughters.”
“Forcing young women to register for the selective service is an affront to our nation’s values and does not enhance military readiness – the only metric by which Congress should measure an NDAA,” the Republicans wrote. “This is yet another blatant attempt to advance a divisive agenda that seeks to eliminate all distinctions between males and females.”
They noted that the House of Representations should refrain from supporting a “future that cripples the American family by sending mothers and daughters to the frontlines – drafted to be combat replacements for casualties on the battlefield – while fathers and sons stay home.”
“A country that pursues radical social ideology over basic principles will not remain a strong, resilient nation,” they said.
The Republicans concluded the letter by asserting a country that “forcibly” conscripts its daughters is “past the point of rescue.”
Those who signed the letter include Republican Reps. Chip Roy (TX), Mary Miller (IL), Bob Good (VA), Josh Brecheen (OK), Harriet Hageman (WY), Paul Gosar (AZ), Bill Posey (FL), Andy Biggs (AZ), Ralph Norman (SC), Brian Babin (TX), Eric Burlison (MO), Barry Moore (AL), Warren Davidson (OH), Michael Cloud (TX), Alex Mooney (MD), Andy Ogles (TN), Diana Harshbarger (TN), Mark Green (TN), Andrew Clyde (GA), Ben Cline (VA), Lauren Boebert (CO), Robert Aderholt (AL), and Keith Self (TX).
