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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 69
mti*oduce the functions of motherhood as a
cogent ground for the privilege of being
freed from mihtary service in time of war
(even if women at some time should receive the
same civil rights now enjoyed by man), they
are in the highest degree illogical. Other
women with more logic declare that on another
battle-field, a still more destructive one, that of
the factory system, the same maternal func-
tions require certain privileges for woman,
and these same functions must result in sub-
jecting her to certain limitations of her indi-
vidual right to control her life. That is, she
cannot pass beyond the limits drawn by na-
ture, without interfering with the rights of
another, the potential child.
It lies in the individual sphere of woman’s
choice as of man’s choice not to choose mar-
riage, or to desire it without parenthood; and
for exemption from the latter, real altruistic
as well as real egoistic reasons can be urged.
It lies in the individual choice of the woman,
as well as of the man, to isolate herself from
what may be regarded as an obstacle to her
individual development, or to her freedom of
movement. She can do without love or
motherhood, if the one or both of these are
regarded from this point of view. Woman
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