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[The Giver] There is no honour in being a birthmother?

In The Giver, Jonas's sister says she hopes she'd get to be a birthmother, and their mother replies by saying something on the lines of 'there is no honour in that profession'. What did she mean by that? The concept of 'honour' in this context doesn't seem consistent with the genetically engineered, socially programmed society of the book to me.
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The society of the book is one where about anything related to basic human affection or attachment is held in very low regard, and completely eliminated whenever possible. If they had the tech to do so, they'd happily go straight to mechanized asexual reproduction, but they don't. They're stuck with the birthmothers, and they aren't happy about it. They go out of the way to make the gig a bad one; a birthmother receives no vocational education, and once they have a mandated number of offspring get condemned to spend the rest of their lives at grunt labor.

While the people don't have any real hard emotions, they still can have concepts of social acceptability and inclusion. "Honor", in the context of employment, would be a job that contributes to the society *while being in line with it's norms*. Giving birth is essential (they literally can't have a society if they don't keep the population up), but flies in the face of their norms. They put it down the same way some people think less of garbage collectors or plumbers in spite of the fact that those jobs are the only things keeping any urban area from turning into a disease-ridden cesspool.