Well, it is better than abortion.
I won't disagree with you there, but my point is that when people who want to become parents are willing to spend huge amounts of money to adopt babies from overseas, that would suggest to me that there would be adequate 'demand' for newborn adoptions if there weren't so many obstacles to parents being able to adopt absolutely-no-strings-attached newborns domestically.
Why, then, is a no-strings-attached adoption, such as used to be the norm, not the ideal situation for all concerned?