What is the test for determining whether a tortfeasor has made a reasonable choice not to abort a child or put the child up for adoption?

As the plaintiffs suggest, these various decisions are the plaintiffs’ alone to make. The proposition that the court should avoid evaluation of them is an inviting one. In the end, however, I am persuaded that the court cannot avoid making such determinations. In Kealey v. Berezowski, Lax J. dealt with a similar argument concerning the parents’ decision not to abort a child or put her up for adoption. At 741, she commented: I accept that this was their decision to make and that a court should not ordinarily inquire into the reasons which informed these very personal choices. However, when parents ask a court to be relieved of the consequences of those choices, I think it is appropriate for a court to ask whether it was reasonable in the circumstances to have made those choices. If the answer is only that notwithstanding these choices, they have suffered a foreseeable loss, it is my view that this is an insufficient reason to impose the responsibilities which are at issue here on the tortfeasor.