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July 30, 2021

NDAA Amendment Shows Woke DC Now Cancelling Rosie the Riveter

Senate Armed Services Committee approves an amendment that would require women to register for the draft—the Family Policy movement responds

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) continues to make its way through the Senate, Family Policy Alliance and the alliance of state-based family policy councils raise the alarm that now Woke D.C. is trying to cancel Rosie the Riveter.

Earlier this week, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the NDAA that would require women to register for the draft. This is the latest disappointing move out of Washington, D.C., after months of the Biden Administration’s clear agenda to erase any distinction between the male and female sexes in law and in culture. From the Administration’s stated top priority, the Equality Act, to their recent “guidance” from the Department of Education that turns Title IX on its head by declaring it to be “discriminatory” when men are not permitted access to women’s locker rooms, sports teams, championships, or scholarships if they self-identify as women, the erasure of women appears to be a top priority in D.C.

The state-based family policy councils and Family Policy Alliance responded to the amendment with this joint statement:

“Now Woke DC is canceling Rosie the Riveter? Men and women are equal under the law and equally made in the image of God, but Woke DC has an agenda to erase any differences between men and women. Insisting that women need to be drafted in order to fully participate in our nation’s defense demeans women who have kept our country safe and on track on the front lines in our manufacturing plants and labor force, with our families, and by their voluntary service in the armed forces.

“To win a war but have no American families left at home would be doing the enemy’s job for them. Who will be left to raise children when both mom and dad have given their lives in required service? Will that be the government—the same government complicit in the nation’s foster care system and lobbying to cancel faith-based adoption and foster care? Mandating women register for the draft is another flawed idea from DC pretending women do not exist.”

Now that the NDAA has cleared the Senate Armed Services Committee, including the Committee’s amendment that would require women to register for the draft, it will head next to the full Senate floor for consideration. The collective Family Policy movement will be urging Senators to reject the amendment.

Organizational signatories to this joint statement (by state):

Family Policy Alliance

Alaska Family Council
Center for Arizona Policy
California Family Council
Colorado Family Action
Family Institute of Connecticut
Delaware Family Policy Council
Florida Family Policy Council
Indiana Family Institute
The FAMiLY LEADER (Iowa)
The Family Foundation (Kentucky)
Christian Civic League of Maine
Massachusetts Family Institute
Michigan Family Forum
Minnesota Family Council
Nebraska Family Alliance
Family Policy Alliance of New Jersey
New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms
North Carolina Family Policy Council
Pennsylvania Family Council
Palmetto Family (South Carolina)
Family Heritage Alliance (South Dakota)
Family Action Council of Tennessee
Texas Values
Family Policy Institute of Washington
West Virginia Family Policy Council
Wisconsin Family Action
Family Policy Alliance of Wyoming

Media Contact:

Norman Woods, (605) 718-5433, Norman@Familyheritagealliance.org