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Originally posted by Jourin:
The purpose of drones is to do missions you would not assign to manned ships.
My evil emperor uses products of conception (POCs) for that role. Gestating females who exercise their right to choose can get the POC removed at a gov't clinic free of charge. It then goes into an artificial gestation chamber for maturation. It is then raised by other POCs until the state decides what to do with it. There is no moral problem with assigning POCs to dangerous space missions, since they are not people.