Objectifying Birth Mothers as “Gestational Carriers”

I thought that language which dehumanized women was supposed to be verboten. But in the procreation as manufacture world of IVF, surrogate mothers, who used to be known as birth mothers, are now called “gestational carriers.”  As in the recent birth of a child for Nicole Kidman and her husband by a surrogate birth mother.  From the story:

Gestational carriers.  Gestational carriers.  I am still trying to get my mind around that.  It doesn’t even sound human.

I am reminded of Dune’s “axlotl tanks,” which are women who are lobotomized and then their bodies  used as gestational carriers for clones. Now, surrogates mothers aren’t lobotomized, of course.  But they are being objectified.