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.

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