Spencer Heath Archive

Item 767

Verbatim note fragment by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath, presumably about the stigma of birth out of wedlock, the theme of a play — sin of motherhood.

White envelope has items 767 & 768.

.. denies to women the right of motherhood under terms of their own choosing. Somehow I can’t think that is good for the race, and it imposes motherhood on whole hosts of women who are neither desirous nor prepared for it psychologically or otherwise. Spencer, not until motherhood becomes voluntary can sex relationships become refined