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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 75
Before women have reached maturity, when
they can, according to the advocates of
women’s rights, protect themselves, they are
ruined physically. If it is said that the facts
mentioned above belong to the question of the
protection of children, not to that of the pro-
tection of women, the answer lies close at hand.
The physical and moral interest of children
and of women are so mutually related, that
they cannot be separated. Crippled women
have children who are stunted at the time of
their birth. The burden of toil they take up
with weakened power of resistance and they
transmit this weakness to their offspring.
Cause and effect are so intimately associated
here, that they cannot be accurately appor-
tioned between the work of women and the
work of children.
Even the advocates of women’s rights must
allow that the limit of their claims to right is
to be found where the right of another begins.
They cannot suppose that the individual right
of the woman to control her life should go so
far that a woman could take a piece of a neigh-
bour’s property to lay out a garden, or use for
an industrial scheme a part of the water power
belonging to some one else.
Can they not see that woman’s individ-
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