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On rarer occasions, men are also involved in this trope, usually as a result of a [[Gendercide]] forcing the survivors to be as engaged in the baby-making business as the women who carry the babies to term. Usually in these cases things are not as bad for the women, who because of large supply, have the choice of whether or not they participate in this process thanks to their relatively high [[Gender Rarity Value]].
In some modern works a woman actually sees herself as one of these, and uses the babies she can make as fulfillment in the more traditional [[Babies Make Everything Better]] vein. [[Unfortunate Implications|This doesn't exactly make things better]]. Can result in [[Too Many Babies]]. [[Mars Needs Women]] may be involved if there are aliens in the story.
See also: [[Mother of a Thousand Young]], and [[People Farms]], for other human ranching purposes.
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* Kzinti females in ''[[Known Space]]'' are non-sentient, due to genetic engineering.
* The Axlotl tanks in ''[[Dune]]'' are actually the females of the house Bene Tleilax.
* The purpose of the handmaids in ''[[The
* On ''[[Gor]]'' the Priest Kings are - unknown to human Goreans - an insectoid species with a queen in the insect sense; she's revered but doesn't have any actual power. The power of the high council is invested in the First Five Born (of which by the time we meet them there are only two left). The Mother dies in the third book, and the plot of the fourth book concerns recovery of the last female egg, so as to restart the sequence (they already have a male).
* 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.
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* The Cylon 'farms' on the occupied Colonies in ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]''.
* ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'' depicts the InVitros being born, fully grown, from one of these.
* An episode of [[Earth: Final Conflict]] indicates that the Taelons were using human clones and the cover of an infertility clinic to make [[Half Human Hybrids]]. It also stated that Sandoval was also tinkering with the results as well.
* A '''very''' distressing example occurs in [[Stargate SG-1]]. SG1 finds a planet where the people have developed a virtual panacea which keeps them in perfect health. They later find out that the drug is basically "ground up Goa'uld", as Jack puts it, harvested by enforced breeding of a captive Goa'uld queen. Things get even worse when they find out that the queen in question is Egeria, the mother of the Tok'ra, and pretty much the [[Heel Face Turn|only good Goa'uld ever]].
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