No Woman Fighting on the Front Line

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Men and women we are the same. We may have different body parts different emotions but women shouldn’t be treated any different. We do live in a free country; shouldn’t we have the freedom to choose what job we want? Women have rights whether it’s the right to bear arms or fight front row in combat. Thousands of women are fighting for their country whether it is in the Air force, Army, or military. The one thing women can’t do is fight in the front row of combat. Why? Because men don’t think we are strong enough. I say women should stand back and fight for their rights. All women should be able to fight in combat because men aren’t always emotionally stable, to further support women’s rights and they are no different than men.

Women should be able to fight in combat because men aren’t always emotionally stable. Men say women can’t carry their own body weight. Women would have to be able to do that to get whoevers hurt on the battlefield out of harm’s way. Who are they telling women they can’t do such a thing? Private Jessica Lynch a U.S. super clerk, suffered two broken legs and a head injury. She was ambushed by Iraq soldiers then later interrogated by Iraqi military officers. The Iraqi military officers were intending to have her executed. April 1st she was rescued by American Forces ("Introduction to Women in the Military”). Jessica lynch was very brave women she pulled through and showed that women can do such things.

Women’s rights, it may have taken a long time to gain rights but women fought till they had them. Women everywhere cherish having them. Women not being able to fight in combat has alienated them. When in fact women can actually do many things for their country. I believe women gained their rights for a reaso...

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... are still unfair to women. Women should be able to do whatever they feel the need to do. If that’s fighting in combat so be it. Women may have a weak side and men may think women can’t do something’s but we shouldn’t be limited from doing them. Whether men have more rights than women. We should all be treated the same. Who gets to tell a woman that we are no better than a man?

Works Cited

Coorey, Phillip.. "MP Fights to Let Women in Close Combat." Sydney Morning Herald, The 02 Oct. 2006: 3. Newspaper Source Plus. Web. 4 Feb. 2014.

"EDITORIAL: Women Have Right to Fight for Freedom." Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY) 13 Nov. 2013: Newspaper Source Plus. Web. 4 Feb. 2014.

"Introduction to Women in the Military: At Issue." Women in the Military. Ed. James Haley. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. At Issue. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 5 Feb. 2014.

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