The preface stated that both Laotian queens had prayed that life be recycled in their WOMBS but only the youngest became pregnant.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
So they killed all they could lay their hands upon, dragging infants from their mothers' WOMBS, that no memory might be left of these miserable Huallas.
"History of the Incas"
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
And of wives who did not wish to bring into the world the children it was their duty to bear, and whose WOMBS were closed as punishment!
"Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 2"
Martin Anderson Nexo