Men-only military draft is a vestige of anti-women bias. Supreme Court should strike it down.

Article here. Excerpt:

'Congress and the courts have eliminated nearly every sex-based distinction in federal law, with one significant exception: The Military Selective Service Act.

This law requires all male-born citizens and residents ages 18 and 26 to register for the draft or face five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, the loss of student loans and a felony record. Women are exempt.

The draft is the government’s most powerful tool to provide for the national defense. The United States drafted nearly 3 million people in World War I, more than 10 million in World War II, about 1.5 million in the Korean War, and over 1.8 million in the Vietnam War. All draftees were men.
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The Military Selective Service Act discriminates against men, by imposing obligations, burdens and penalties that only men face. The law discriminates against women by treating them as less than full citizens, conveying that women are less willing and able to defend the country, and perpetuating paternalistic stereotypes that, as Justice William Brennan once put it, “put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.”'

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Anti-female bias?

They mean special treatment for women. AKA Female Privilege. All the perks, none of the downside.

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