Here's the thing, guys..........

[HeartLikeAWheel]

54. Very, Very Close, but no cigar

Yes, the draft. Basically I agree with you. But the analogy does not completely hold up. There have always been exemptions to the draft. There was 4-F, there was Conscientious Objector status, having a rich daddy who pulled strings to get you into the National Guard or a medical exemption for bone spurs, and so forth. Even if inducted against one's will, service by itself did not inevitably include the risk of death. Serving as a draftee clerk-typist in Iowa may have been involuntary servitude, but it was not life-threatening. I've known a few who survived that. And you had to be 18. (Yes, the draft was on when I was in high school. I learned a lot then.) On the other hand, I've known two healthy young women who in this century died suddenly of pregnancy-related issues (stroke, clot). The world we're entering now in many states allows no exemption for anything: not age (11 years old!), not sexual assault, not health, not anything. And ask activists in Ireland (until recently) and Poland whether the "life of the mother" exemption always works.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/death-pregnant-woman-ignites-debate-about-abortion-ban-poland-2021-11-05/

And before you object with the argument that rich women will always get abortions, I want to note that in today's news a prominent Texas Republican state representative is calling for including women seeking abortions in our current, draconian antiabortion law (the one authorizing bounty hunters).

But it's useful as a thought experiment for men: what if you had to serve against your will in combat arms with no way out when you were an asthmatic 15 years old?