"Nanda, I do not extol the production of a new existence even a little bit; nor do I extol the production of a new existence for even a moment. Why? The production of a new existence is suffering."
— Antinatalism

January 1, 1970

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Gautama Buddha, Garbhavakranti Sutra, in Robert Kritzer, "Life in the Womb: Conception and Gestation in Buddhist Scripture and Classical Indian Medical Literaure"; Vanessa R. Sasson and Jane Marie Law (eds.) Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (Oxford UP, 2009) p. 82