Some men, including this reviewer, will fit quickly into this category, excuse themselves from the TV room, and leave their wives spellbound on the sofa, drenched in tears. They always dreamed of having a family but either got too busy with their careers, or, as in Jan' s case, lost a long-time mate to a disease before they could start a family together. The film delineates two key issues. One, voiced by Gloria Steinem, is that having and raising a child without a father, by choice, is empowering for women. These are women who lived their lives as they wished, which didn't involve being bothered with children until the alarms on their biological clocks began ringing too loudly in their ears to be ignored.
Baby comes down on the side of women making their own choices.
When you see how deeply all these women feel on the subject it's hard not to agree. The artificial baby-conceiving processes are nothing short of brutal. The camera is everywhere. When Debbie gives birth to Joshua her father and mother are right there, Dad with the video camera, Mom cutting the cord. Again, many women will find this endearing.