The idea that it might be a moral crime to have a baby, that it might be wrong to bring a new human individual into the world is to many people simply bizarre. Having a baby is a wonderful thing to do, it is usually regarded as the unproblematic choice from the moral if not from the ‘social’ or medical point of view. It is only having an abortion and perhaps also refraining from having children that is regarded as requiring justification . . . [T]he idea that one might be harmed or wronged by being brought into existence in less than a satisfactory state is very important indeed, for, as we have seen, it challenges many of our moral presumptions about having children. Moreover, if the alleged wrong can give rise to legal actions for compensation, and perhaps also to criminal liability then a number of further problems arise.