Because civilized societies have always recognized that women are not sent into war. They nurture and support the family. The feminists went to war against that traditional principle, (drafting women was a feminist agenda from the beginning) and a lot of “conservatives” - such as you - have become feminists.
While I am sure that we agree on most everything, including that Juan McCain is an idiot, your statement is not completely accurate. As an example 22,000 army nurses served in WWI and 3,000 navy nurses. 1,200 of these women died from enemy attack, illness, exhaustion and other causes.
Up until the 1960s the names of all women who completed nurses training were sent to the Red Cross for “reasons of war or disaster”. My mother’s name was sent to the Red Cross when she graduated from nursing school in the 1950s. At that time my mother and all new nurses knew that in case of “war or disaster” they could be required to serve.
When the Army or Navy needed nurses they went to the Red Cross and the Red Cross sent letters out to the nurses that they selected ordering them to report to the Army or Navy for service. The nurses either complied or had to have a legitimate reason, they weren’t allowed to say just that they did not want to. They were effectively drafted.
Somehow this historical fact doesn’t make it into discussions such as this one very often. There is nothing civilized about war, throughout all of history members of “civilized societies” of both sexes have found themselves in the middle of conflicts regardless of their roles in normal society.
Sorry I forgot to italicize those are WilliamIIIs words.
Sorry one more typo:
It should have said,
“During WWI when the Army or Navy needed nurses they went to the Red Cross and the Red Cross sent letters out to the nurses that they selected ordering them to report to the Army or Navy for service. The nurses either complied or had to have a legitimate reason, they weren’t allowed to say just that they did not want to. They were effectively drafted.”
During WWII the services recruited nurses directly and also had a program known as the Nurses Cadet Corp.