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From: falk@peregrine.Eng.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: equal rights?
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Date: 17 Sep 90 18:25:30 GMT
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In article <653401482@lear.cs.duke.edu> gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel) writes:
>In article <6543@darkstar.ucsc.edu> (fOoDFoOdfOoDiTYfooD!) writes:
>>At the risk of giving in to baiting, let me ask you this: Why, then,
>>do people want women allowed in combat?
>
>When Carter started the registration for draft NOW did not
>complain because only men were registered...

Wrong.

I remember when Carter reinstated the draft.  I was sitting next to my
friend, the president of the local N.O.W. chapter, when we heard the
news on TV.  She *immediately* got up and started making phone calls,
we were on the picket lines the next morning protesting, and she had
anti-draft activists on her feminist radio show the day after that.

I believe that the "official" feminist position is that there should
be no draft for women *or* men.

[That should be the "'official' NOW position" -- there is no "official
feminist position." --CLT]

		-ed falk, sun microsystems
		 sun!falk, falk@sun.com
		 card-carrying ACLU member.