"Pragmatically, even setting aside matters of squeamishness, it allows for any two parents to reproduce," she says. "And it is safer. Especially between two necromancers, viability of the fetus is often touch-and-go, even in the controlled environment of a gestation unit. Not to mention the risk pregnancy poses to the child-bearing parent."

"But perhaps these risks are greater in post-Resurrection humanity," she says, with the fastidiousness of someone trying to make every allowance.