Elizabeth and William Stern, burdened by infertility, wanted a child so badly that they "hired" Mary Beth Whitehead to act as their surrogate mother. Mary Beth, married to an alcoholic garbage man and a mother of two older kids, said that she "wanted to give the most loving gift of happiness" (Landau, 1988: 151). The two couples set up a contract with New Jersey lawyer Noel Keane stating that as soon as the baby's birth occurred, Mary had surrender the child to the Sterns and walk away with $20,000 in her pocket. But right after "Baby M's" birth, Mary Beth changed her mind and begged the Sterns that she keep the child for a week. When the week was up, the authorities came to get "Sarah" (as Mary Beth named her), but in the heat of the moment, Mary Beth handed the baby out the back window to her husband and fled to Florida. Needless to say the case proceeded to a much-publicized trial entailing six weeks of testimony, half a million dollars in legal bills, and the Sterns ending up the legal parents of "Baby M". As for which woman acts as the legal guardian of the child, gestational surrogacy can help clear that issue up. Gestational surrogacy is when the egg of the intended mother and the sperm of the intended father are transplanted into the surrogate mother's uterus. Thus the child, genetically, belongs to the intended mother. If surrogacy must remain legal in this country, the gestational technique, perhaps, would be the best alternative as opposed to traditional surrogacy. A woman, artificially inseminated with the intended father's sperm, demonstrates traditional surrogacy. Most surrogate cases occur with the traditional use but mainly because gestational surrogate costs tend to lean more on the expensive side, which brings up another problem of social income (rich vs. non-rich). If surrogacy shall be allowed in America, it should be available for both the wealthy and poor castes.