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[[File:babyfactory_31babyfactory 31.png|link=Xkcd|frame|It turns out [[Tomato in the Mirror|we]] are the Von Neumann machines.]]
 
Take the female body. Now, instead of visualizing a human being, with all the markings of independent thought and higher intelligence, visualize an organic device that can be used to create babies. This is no doubt rather creepy (particularly for our female viewers), but sometimes this is because it is believed to be necessary, to deal with a heavily depleted race of species. On the other hand, this trope can just as easily be engaged in for the sake of evil. Babies can be sold for delicious, delicious profit. Or alternatively, [[Eats Babies|they're just delicious]]. You can guess what a sufficiently evil character will do from this point.
 
The [['''Baby Factory]]''' symbolizes the idea of a woman as being chained to her biology, and also represents the darker side of [[Babies Make Everything Better]]. Come what may, babies must be created. No, she doesn't get to have any interaction with the baby. Probably for the better, since she's likely to resent the life this has given her. Even worse, the mother might actually enjoy it- sure, we've reduced the higher functions of humanity to the economic functions of supply and demand, but it's a living.
 
This trope is a central ramification of any work where creating [[Designer Babies]] is a societal directive. Many [[Science Fiction]] writers avoid it altogether by providing a means of creating babies that doesn't require human wombs or (usually non-consensual) sexual intercourse. Usually this takes the form of a [[Uterine Replicator]].
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