This morning there was a short news story about whether a child born with serious disabilities caused by their mothers alcohol consumption should be compensated as a victim of crime. The speaker went on to suggest whether mothers who knowingly consume alcohol during their pregnancies should or could be prosecuted if their baby is born with foetal alcohol syndrome. The argument is that it should be considered a crime, causing harm to another human being , yet the current argument is whether or not a judge, or indeed the law can consider a foetus an independent being.