evidence: And as for the fate of the infants who are surrendered? No difficulty there, either, according to Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote in a footnote to the Dobbs decision that "a woman who puts her newborn up for adoption today has little reason to fear that the baby will not find a suitable home," citing a 2008 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the low domestic supply of infants. [...] Children in the System "Alito’s decision mentioned the paucity of domestic infants," said Roys, the state senator in Wisconsin, countering that the only "shortage" is in healthy white newborns. "There are huge numbers of children in the country and worldwide who need loving homes but haven’t been able to be adopted because there isn’t a family willing to take on a special-needs or an older child or a child with significant health problems." [...] Coney Barrett’s and Alito’s assertions that adoptions are a solution to abortion are baseless, according to Addie Wyman-Battalen, who has an academic appointment at the Boston College School of Social Work and who specializes in adoption. "It’s concerning because it’s not based in data. We have over a hundred thousand children waiting to be adopted, so it’s not working. … It’s really scary when the people who are making decisions for [children] are not taking into consideration the current situation."