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* In ''Hexwood'' by [[Diana Wynne Jones]], the corrupt and oppressive intergalactic government enforces its will by means of psychic assassins called Servants. They get more Servants by picking women with strong psychic abilities to breed to the current Servant and giving them drugs so that they have as many babies as possible (the women, naturally, get no choice in this matter). The children are taken away as soon as they're born, and... well, no one knows what happens to the mother after that.

* Frank Herbert's ''Hellstrom's Hive''. The insect like humans of the Hive have a practice of slicing off most of the body above the waist and below the knees and using the remainder for breeding purposes.

* In Lois Lowry's ''[[The Giver]]'', girls are selected at the age of twelve to begin training as Birthmothers, producing offspring for the Community that are immediately taken away. Once they meet their quota, Birthmothers spend the rest of their lives as factory labourers.

* In [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Spectrum]]'', a race of [[Lizard Folk]] often travel with four-legged pets. It turns out these are their females who have lost their sentience as a result of a radical evolutionary change caused by an ancient cataclysm.