The limits of rights-based discourse / Mary Warnock -- Choosing who: what is wrong with making better children? / Thomas Baldwin -- Disability, enhancement and the harm -benefit continuum / Lisa Bortolotti and John Harris -- Genes, genealogies and paternity : making babies in the twenty-first century / Martin Richards -- The contingency of the 'genetic link' in constructions of kinship and inheritance--an anthropological perspective / Alison Shaw -- Regulating the science and therapeutic application of human embryo research: managing the tension between biomedical creativity and public concern / Martin H. Johnson -- Defining parenthood / Bonnie Steinbock -- Parenting by being, parenting by doing--in search of principles for founding families / Judith Masson -- Birthrights? The rights and obligations associated with the birth of a child / Andrew Bainham -- Reproductive choice: men's freedom and women's responsibility? / Sally Sheldon