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What Phyllis Knew About Girls and Boys
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by Anne Schlafly Cori, Chairman, Eagle Forum
Today, I celebrate the birthdate of my mother, Phyllis Schlafly. Her extraordinary life had everything to do with her own moxy and nothing to do with social media or the press.
In fact, the press lampooned Phyllis Schlafly, misquoted her, and often ignored her. She taught me the valuable lesson of Doing the Impossible: do it now and never wait for someone else to do it for you! Phyllis taught thousands of women how to stand up and speak out with confidence.
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Phyllis Schlafly: Doing The Impossible - Defeating the ERA
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A great example of her courage is how my mother protected the rights of all mothers — particularly mothers of girls. Because of Phyllis Schlafly, young women are not subject to military conscription. In the 1970s, both sides agreed that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment would require that the military draft be expanded to include women and that ERA would require women to be sent to combat duty. ERA was defeated because Americans rejected the drafting of young women.
Yet today, Congress is considering requiring 18-year-old girls to register for Selective Service and thus be subject to the draft. The drafting of young men is designed for times of national emergency for the military to quickly mobilize. As we have seen over the last year, our leaders relish using the excuse of an "emergency" to stoke fear, amass power, and deprive us of our Constitutional liberties.
Phyllis understood that subjecting females to the draft would not benefit the military and would harm families. The Left pilloried her and the Right cheered her.
My local paper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, endorsed drafting women and they published my opposing letter, but the paper did NOT publish my last, and most important, sentence. The last sentence was one of my mother's best arguments against government mandating that women and men be interchangeable at all times.
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Read the letter in full:
Regarding the editorial "Debating women and the draft (July 29).
There is only one purpose of Selective Service and compulsory draft, which is to have a supply of combat replacement troops. Draftees do not get to choose a high-tech role; their role is to go where they are ordered to go, which is on the front lines as cannon fodder.
Drafts are used in times of national emergency, so we should not pass a new law that would allow our leaders to use expanded emergency powers to forcibly use girls as cannon fodder. There is no benefit to women, families, or the effectiveness of the U.S. military to have females in combat.
None of America's enemies use women in their combat forces.
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Phyllis Schlafly's words were rarely published in mainstream media.
My mother stood up and spoke out in public for me as her 18-year-old daughter so that I would not be subject to the draft and combat. Now it is my honor to continue her legacy and promote her ideas — especially when the press deletes and ignores us!
Please join me and Eagle Forum as we continue to articulate the words and ideas of Phyllis Schlafly.
Donate $97 to honor her 97th birthday! Eagle Forum needs YOU more than ever. Don't wait for someone else; do it now!
God bless you,
Anne Schlafly Cori
Chairman, Eagle Forum
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We, the Undersigned, petition our government and claim our right as free American citizens to accept or reject any treatments and medications, including vaccines, for any malady or illness.
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