‘Bodies With Vaginas’ and the Woke Dehumanization of Women

‘Bodies With Vaginas’ and the Woke Dehumanization of Women
A pregnant woman poses for photos before the Manhattan city skyline at sunset in a park in Williamsburg, N.Y., on April 20, 2021. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images
Wesley J. Smith
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In the “Dune” series of science fiction novels, biotechnologists manufacture clones in breeding contraptions known as “axlotl tanks.” Readers eventually learn that these “tanks” are the uteruses of unconscious lobotomized women—motherhood reduced to the status of gestating vats with the female victims of this despotism dehumanized by a lexicon that eradicates their humanity.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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