If the united states reinstated the draft, both men and women should be forced to serve.

Counter-Rebuttals 1. My opponent seems to be drawing the wrong impressions of women contributing to the war by stating, "Doesn't it seem sexist to assume that only women can take care of the home front. If women could be drafted, a substantial amount of men would not be drafted, and they could help take care of the so-called "home front"." I have not explicitly stated that only women can contribute in the home front when in reality children, women, and men ineligible for the armed forces served the nation. Ineligible men bought bonds that provided the funds the government needed to finance manufacturing, and children gathered scrap metal that would later be converted to ammunition. 2. My opponent states, "This is true, but personally, I would rather work in a bomb factory where I control my own fate. Rather than go storm the beach at Normandy, facing land mines, barbed wire, artillery, machine guns, the Luftwaffe, shrapnel, emotional trauma, tanks, rockets and drowning. Substantially more men died in combat than women in bomb factories did." as a rebuttal to women contributing to the war, but his rebuttal is a straw man argument. It is expected that more men died in combat than women in explosive ordinance factories. It is also noted that the Luftwaffe in 1944 was only a shadow of what it used to be after being decimated by allied bombers on the ground and by fighters escorting the bombers. My opponent also does not realize that the emotional trauma is not limited to combatants. Children whose parents were sent to war are often devastated, and fearful that the other parent may leave for combat as well. In addition my opponent claims to want to control his fate, something that is impossible to do. This is impossible because there will always be external factors such as other people (managers, co-workers), equipment (faulty or other), and other factors. 3. "If the government offers exemptions for being a "conscientious objector", they would have to make exemptions that if one parent was drafted, the other could not be drafted." However considering how the US is plagued with single parenthood issues, it is unlikely that US will provide exemptions because of the risk of the other non-custodial parent might claim to be a conscientious objector leading to the custodial parent being drafted. 4. "Women contribute heavily to the war effort, but how is it fair that only men can be forced against their will to stand downrange of a bullet. I don"t feel like women should be able to stay home in a time of war to advance their careers, and avoid the horrors of war, while 18 year-old boys are dragged away from home with the very real possibility they may not return." Now this is another straw man argument. My opponent simply says that it is not fair that men be drafted while women aren't drafted. I could simply state that the draft implements poetic justice on men for putting down women right's until the early 20th century in the US. Now before you (the voters) think that this counter rebuttal is a straw man argument, think about it. Men were granted suffrage while women were expected to what the men said. Women were expected to be submissive, and stay at home. Women weren't allowed to keep property prior to the 19th century while men could. Women could also be sent to a debtor's prison for the husband's debt in the 16th-17th century. The draft only affects men and does not affect women. Men saw war for its entirety, women supplied the helmets, tanks, plane, guns, and armor. Men fought in the field, Women from the factory. Fairness is impossible to achieve when the draft delivers poetic justice for women rights. 5. "Any woman experiences the same benefits that America has to offer to men, and therefore they have the same duty to defend the United States as any man" Duty to defend the United States: The obligation to protect American interests or the US itself via combat, politically, or economically. Women already do their duty to defend the US economically, which would refute Pro's accusation that women don't do their duty to defend the US. Thus I urge a con vote http://www.skiff.tcu.edu...