I've been thinking a lot about what's going to happen in about nine months' time.

It'll be spring.

Everything will seem a little brighter, a little greener.

And in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, canceling out the constitutional right to an

abortion, there might be a lot more babies.

This possibility was considered by the court.

The justice is, even seem to suggest a solution, adoption.

In his final opinion, Justice Samuel Alito assured readers that a woman who puts her newborn

up for adoption today has little reason to fear that the baby won't find a suitable home.

During oral arguments, Justice Amy Coney Barrett seemed to imply that because all 50 states

have safe haven laws, adoption might serve as a kind of substitute for abortion.

I wanted a fact check on that.

The safe haven laws, you know, it's good to have them, but very, very few people take advantage

of them.

And Fessler has made herself into an adoption expert.

I should just interrupt and say safe haven laws, they allow a birth mother to surrender a child

without any punishment, I guess, or any consequence, right?

Right, right.

She can take the child to a local, you know, fire station, you know, and drop it off, but

it's very, very, very rarely used.

Anne's expertise comes from trying very deeply to understand mothers who feel like they need

to surrender their babies.

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