pt. 1. Making babies. May days -- Birth rights -- Pregnancy for pay -- Motherless child -- For love and money -- Conceptions by contract -- Regulating reproduction -- pt. 2. Making decisions. Whose child is it, anyway? -- The baby everybody wanted -- On the edges of life -- Parenting on trial -- The appeal of Baby M -- pt. 3. Making law. Maternity police -- Surrogacy and the issue of choice -- The limits of law -- Lady Madonna