and Mrs. Whitehead, and it restored Mrs. Whitehead’s maternal rights, granting her a right of visitation. A case such as this one demonstrates how muddled the parent-child relation becomes once choice enters in certain ways. Who, we might ask, is the “real” mother of Baby M? Is it Mrs. Stern, who proposes to rear the child? Is it Mrs. Whitehead, the genetic and gestational mother? And suppose, as could be possible, Mrs. Stern had donated the ova to be fertilized and then gestated by Mrs. Whitehead.