evidence: In June 2022, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito suggested, in the majority opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that one outcome of ending the constitutional right to abortion might be an increase in private domestic adoptions. In a footnote to his opinion, Alito noted that, according to a 2008 CDC report, "nearly 1 million women were seeking to adopt children in 2002 (i.e., they were in demand for a child), whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life and available to be adopted had become virtually nonexistent." [...] Alito’s and Barrett’s arguments were greeted with immediate outcry: that a far-right SCOTUS was paving the way to treat pregnant women as the source of a commercial product, a domestic supply of adoptable babies. But Alito was only saying the quiet part out loud. Because in truth, that’s long been the reality across much of the adoption industry. For all the rhetoric of "win-win-win" solutions that surround adoption — domestic and foreign, private and public — for decades, adoption has too often functioned as a supply-and-demand industry, where mostly poorer women provide the supply to meet richer families’ demand.