Phil in SF quoted Never Go Back by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #18)
Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to …
Which is what the phrase means these days, I suppose, now that the whole parturition business has been institutionalized.
— Never Go Back by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #18) (72%)
new vocabulary: parturition
(formal) or (technical) the action of giving birth to young; childbirth
had a few other new vocabulary words, which is weird for a Reacher nook, but i didn't have my phone handy to post.