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Voting to require women to make themselves eligible for the draft could come back to bite Democrats in Republican-leaning or battleground states, such as Montana and Nevada.
For the 2021 draft only, the league and its players union, the Women's National Basketball Players Association, agreed to modified eligibility rules due to changes brought on by COVID-19. The most significant change is that all age-eligible college players who wished to enter that draft had to opt in.
The claim: US military is requiring women to register for the draft. A June 16 Facebook post claims a new demographic is now legally required to register for the Selective Service.
U.S. armed forces leaders said on Tuesday that women should be required to register for the military draft, along with men.
World War I draft card. Lower left corner to be removed by men of African ancestry in order to keep the military segregated. Following the U.S. declaration of war against Germany on 6 April, the Selective Service Act of 1917 (40 Stat. 76) was passed by the 65th United States Congress on 18 May 1917, creating the Selective Service System. [10]
The player's 22nd birthday falls during the calendar year of the draft. For this draft, the cutoff birth date is December 31, 2002. She has either: completed her college eligibility; received a bachelor's degree, or is scheduled to receive such in the three months following the draft; or; is at least four years removed from high school graduation.
In 2022, NBC News reported "only 9% of those young Americans eligible to serve in the military had any inclination to do so," a low since 2007. ... "We will not draft women. This will happen over ...
The WNBA draft lottery is an annual event held since 2002 by the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), in which the teams who had missed the playoffs the previous year participate in a lottery process to determine the draft order in the first round of the WNBA draft.