WASHINGTON, April 10, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Robert Knight, of The Culture and Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America, states in a commentary published yesterday that we should be happy private Jessica Lynch was rescued in Iraq but, he also asks, “what was she doing there in the first place?” This latest article adds to the growing controversy about the wisdom or lack thereof of the U.S. armed forces increasingly placing women and especially mothers closer to combat situations. Knight writes that radical feminist and former Congressman Patricia Schroeder has responded to the latest female battle stories by “saying it is time to end all combat exemptions for women, since, in our enlightened way, we are not supposed to care that wives and daughters are turned into hamburger by enemy troops.”
Deliberately placing women into combat situations, says Knight, willfully ignores critical male-female differences and that “the more that we buy into the fiction that women are indistinguishable from men, the more we sleepwalk into an unfolding disaster.”
The Clinton administration is given a large part of the blame for the current situation because it “largely dispensed with the ‘risk rule’, which exempts women from jobs in which they are likely to face enemy fire.”
Knight emphasizes that the public has not been made aware of “the jealousy, broken marriages and fights that erupted during the Gulf war when men and women were billeted together.” Ultimately, Knight sees the anti-life abortion culture as having a role in the placing of women into combat situations. He writes “When America sends young women off to war, watching them kiss their toddlers goodbye, we are making a moral choice that children are just not important anymore. It is much more important to drive a military truck. This callousness is an outgrowth of the abortion culture in which human life itself is cheapened.” The article concludes, “it is barbaric to put women in combat, even if they are fool enough to want to go.” See the full article at: https://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3708&department=CFI&categoryid=cfreport See related articles: Congress may reconsider women-in-combat rules https://www.humanevents.org/articles/04-07-03/dagostino.htm Women-in combat debate resurfaces https://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0023491.html 1992 Presidential Commission on the assignment of women in the armed forces https://www.cmrlink.org/WomenInCombat.asp?docID=65 Women in combat: a moral, mortal and morale danger https://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/11-12-01/kirkwood.html