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In reply to the discussion: What do these women think about women serving in combat? [View all]Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)BILLION. B-I-L-L-I-O-N. The earth is overpopulated, in case you hadn't noticed, and the death of millions in other countries doesn't make a dent in that or in those countries repopulating because of this. And here's another reality: Vietnam--58,151. That's how many died in the last war with a draft. Let's imagine that it was 50% female and you get 24,000 women. An appalling figure, but do you really think we couldn't repopulate the U.S. if we lost that many woman of childbearing age? Really?
Which is to say, I have this sneaky suspicion that we could easily repopulate the U.S. even if we drafted and lost a good many young women in a war (heaven forbid we do go to war and have to do that). And you're forgetting other realities. Like the fact that we can now fertilize eggs and keep them on ice. We could repopulate the U.S. by paying women from other countries to carry the fertilized eggs left behind by any men/women we drafted.
All of which means that your argument is outdated and NOT talking reality at all. It's from the previous century when a country could really suffer from the loss of it's young men and women. We'd suffer if there was ever a draft and a war requiring that many young men and women, yes, but not in the same way. All we'd have to do is open our doors to immigrants and we'd be back up to snuff in no time. SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE, and a lot of them want to be U.S. citizens. We'd have no problem at all repopulating. I promise you.