Bottle-Born life forms had children all the time with genetic material from both parents, so they were both biological and legal parents. The process used to create the child was one of the fundamental barriers between Naturals and Bottle-Borns. We sported the differences in the way we described ourselves—and those differences stood at the root of our existence.
There was zero appetite to eradicate the differences vital to identity. Any Bottle-Born free citizen had the biology to have natural childbirth; there was no legal constraint on any natural lifeform from brewing a child. It wasn’t done because we’d been created by alien hands as part of an industrial process. Creating a child was a way of domesticating and owning said process.
As Asher said talked about wanting a baby, it became
