Foreword: Choosing joy for mothers and children / Kay Warren -- Preface: All lives have equal value / Melinda Gates -- Introduction: Third world women / Amy Grant -- Part 1: Maternal and child health: how healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy saves lives -- Mihret Gebrehiwot's story: Ethiopia -- A mama knows / Rachel Held Evans -- Contraception is a pro-life cause in developing world / Bill Frist and Jenny Eaton Dyer -- Family planning as a pro-life cause / Michael Gerson -- Transforming the world / David Stevens -- the burden we should share / Cathy R. Taylor -- Baby free until 2013 / James and Jena Lee Nardella -- Women and girls' health / Phillip Nieburg -- She counts / Shannon Trilli -- New ideas, new opinions / Victoria Jennings -- Who will take care of my children? / Elizabeth Styffe -- A "big tent" approach / Kent R. Hill -- Personal and professional reasons to be thankful for child spacing / Ray Martin -- Why Christians should care about maternal health / Shepherd and Anita Smith -- Contraception uncoupled / Joe McIlhaney -- From mother to mother / Kimberly Williams-Paisley -- Part 2: Strong mothers: the key to healthy families, communities, and nations -- Beryl Anyago's story: Kenya -- Helping women isn't just a "nice" thing to do / Hillary Clinton -- Maternal health and the strategy for empowering women / Bruce Wilkinson -- Better moms make a better world / Sherry Surratt -- Healthy mothers create healthy societies, and a safer world / Kay Granger -- How I became a maternal health advocate / Christy Turlington Burns -- Family planning and linkages with US health and development goals / Janet Fleischman -- Making dreams come true / Jennifer Nettles -- Part 3: Other concerns: male involvement, child marriage, slavery, and orphan care -- Namatta Lillian's story: Uganda -- Kiran Awasthi's story: India -- What's so scary about smart girls? / Nicholas Kristof -- Men as difference-makers / James Nardella -- From the shade of an acacia tree / Dan Haseltine -- Too young to wed / Cynthia Gorney -- Child marriage and dowry deaths / Jimmy Carter -- A promise to girls / Desmond Tutu and Ela Bhatt -- Forced to confront the impossible / Christine Caine -- Brothels, survival, and hope / Natalie Grant -- Contraceptives in the developing world / Tony Campolo -- Speaking up for other mothers / Tracie Hamilton -- Every child deserves a family / Mary Beth Chapman -- Part 4: Why maternal health matters to people of faith -- Dorine's story: Burundi -- The good Samaritan in the global village / Jim Wallis -- The first-responder church / Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado -- You just never know / Mike Glenn -- Blessed for all generations / Dan Scott -- What kind of people ought you to be? / Jennie Allen -- On shame and stewardship / Scott Sauls -- Sovereign over us / Michael W. Smith -- The old new thing / Sarah Masen and David Dark -- The village nearby / Debbie Dortzbach -- Appendix: What you can do. -- How you can become an advocate -- How you can give: partners in maternal health.