evidence: The argument that forced birth is justified because other people can have enjoyment of the resulting children sends us tumbling deeper down the rabbit hole into commodifying babies and conscripting their mothers. This is hardly a practice that ended with slavery. Recall that removing babies from their parents was the animating theory behind the Canadian residential school atrocities and that, as Rebecca Nagle notes of Alito’s claims about the domestic baby supply, "for decades, the adoption industry has filled this gap disproportionately with children from communities of color—first through international adoption and now foster care." Recall, too, that some of the migrant children who were taken from their families and then irretrievably "lost" at the southern border under the Trump administration’s barbaric family separation regime were placed with allegedly deserving Christian families. [...] Alito’s "domestic supply of infants" footnote might be buffed away by the time we get a final opinion in Dobbs. But it bespeaks a fundamental and cruel misunderstanding of autonomy and liberty rights, and a return to something far more pernicious. Forcing pregnant people to carry to term for the benefit of others isn’t a gentle or neutral recalibration of fetal personhood rights against maternal liberty interests; it is the very definition of subjugation, which is "deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition" in ways the 14th Amendment actually sought to correct.