Phyllis Schlafly

About the Author: Phyllis Schlafly is a well- known conservative writer and activist who publishes the monthly newsletter The Phyllis Schlafly Report. Schlafly supports traditional family values and traditional roles for men and women.

Present [U.S.] military policy is based on the feminist notion that there is no difference between motherhood and fatherhood, and that after maternity leave, the new mother is fully deployable to anywhere in the world. After all, she voluntarily enlisted, so she is supposed to make daycare arrangements for her baby.

This is the policy which the American people watched in amazement when they saw press photos of nursing mothers of six-, 10-, and 12-weekold babies—plus mothers of two and three preschool children—being shipped out to the Persian Gulf war. Some were women on active duty; some...