Selective Service update long overdue

Article here. Excerpt:

'A spot currently running on the radio in Connecticut reminds young men they are required by law to register for the draft when they're 18 and warns them of the consequences if they don't.

If you don't register, you won't get a government job or get into a government training program and you won't be eligible for a federally funded student loan.

Unmentioned is the threat of being imprisoned for up to five years or fined up to a rather impressive $250,000, for failing to sign up for what amounts to no more than a waiting list or database in the event the draft is ever revived. No one's been prosecuted under the law since 1986.

Also note the message refers to men 18 and older; women don't have to register even though they are now equal members of the military.
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But equal treatment includes the right to be drafted and if Congress fails to act with some speed, the courts will surely be asked to intervene. In 1981, the Supreme Court found the exclusion of women from the draft was justified because they were also excluded from combat, so the result of a new challenge is pretty predictable.'