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Well clearly all of those women dropping their babies off should have thought of that before they had sex!

Realistically, adopting out newborns - especially healthy ones - isn't actually that hard. The foster care system is hopelessly overwhelmed, but that's primarily by children that entered the system when they were older, rather than abandoned/orphaned newborns that have grown up. Newborns that are up for adoption get snapped up pretty quickly because there's so much demand for them that many would-be adoptive parents resort to adopting foreign children (often ones with health problems because they're all that are left over). The adoption system could absorb a pretty substantial influx of new babies without exceeding that demand, though that would have the effect of reducing the adoptability of children with health problems and killing the foreign adoption market (which would absolutely end up hurting those children).

Of course, that would still come with additional infrastructure needs to support the administration of all of those extra adoptions, and none of that justifies enslaving unwilling women to produce babies for people to adopt, but it's fairly unlikely that a federal abortion ban would result in more babies being put up for adoption than can be adopted.