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The pro-life movement is totally misguided in pursuing this approach.

I know women who've had abortions. (We all do, of course, but I actually know a few who've talked to me about it.)

Not one of them doubted that they were aborting a living child. Every one of them could imagine how that child looked like. The bottom line was that they were unready to have the child and saw the guilt and grief associated with abortion as less burdensome than carrying a pregnancy to term (and enduring the associated public ignominy) and then either having a baby and dealing with single parenthood and a recalcitrant or absent father, or giving up a child for adoption and spending a lifetime wondering about that child and whether s/he would come back and disrupt her life.

It is THOSE factors and considerations which the pro-life movement must address. It must remove, entirely, the shame and discomfort which attends a single woman being pregnant. It must assure these women that they won't be burdened by raising a child, and that a woman giving up her child has an absolute right to elect a completely zero paperwork, zero chance of reunion, adoption.

If the pro-choice movement can't or won't do that, it will make no progress against abortion, because it simply won't address the demand. And as long as there is demand, there will always be supply. (And given that abortion will certainly remain legal in places in the U.S. if Roe is overturned, and remain legal in most places in the "First World" outside of the U.S. no matter what happens in the U.S., the supply will actually be legal and largely unimpeded.)

It must assure these women that they won't be burdened by raising a child, and that a woman giving up her child has an absolute right to elect a completely zero paperwork, zero chance of reunion, adoption. >>

We have crisis pregnancy centers who do that every day. They will even raise the child if need be.

And, Most states of Safe-Haven Laws where a mom can drop off their child, no questions asked, to any hospital, police dept. etc. It's worked out well in the states which promote the program.