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76 The Century of the Child
ual freedom is limited by the rights of an-
other, by the rights of the potential child?
The potential child has its own proper rights,
its own vital power. This property, the wo-
man has not the right to encroach upon in
advance.
A woman, who from one motive or an-
other, great or small, permanently keeps out-
side of the marriage relation, has complete
right to ruin herself by work, provided she
does not, as a result of so doing, become a
burden to others through incapacity.
But the woman who looks forward to moth-
erhood as a possibility for herself, or the
woman who is expecting to become a mother,
should not, through an unlimited amount of
voluntary work or of work forced upon her
contrary to her will, sacrifice the capacities for
life and work of an unborn generation, in
such a way that she will bring into the world
weak, invalid, or physically incapable children,
who will later on be neglected.
It does not occur to the dogmatic advocates
of women’s rights that their talk about the in-
dividual freedom of the woman to control her
career, their contention that no limitation need
restrict woman’s power of deciding her own
vocation, because they are married or are
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