Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

GOP Blocks Provision to Require Women to Register for Draft

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Buckling under conservative pressure, the Republican-led House Rules Committee pulled a legislative sleight of hand and stripped a provision from the annual defense policy bill that would have required women between the ages of 18 and 25 to sign up for a military draft. The committee's chairman, Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said in a statement Tuesday the action was taken to prevent what he called a "reckless policy'' from moving forward without closer study of its...

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