I wonder if an effective method of changing pro-life minds would be to put a few thousand fertilized eggs into a thimble and give it to them and be like 'if you throw this away you will kill thousands of people'
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the process to get a few thousand fertilized eggs would cost a fortune but I'm not sure someone could really 'believe' they're holding thousands of people in their hands, yknow?
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Fwiw I (and many people I know) fully believed I was killing babies everytime I masturbated for many years
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I would certainly believe that. However that does not necessarily make killing them morally equivalent to bombing a city; e.g. if someone found that "Horton hears a Who" was our actual situation, they would not change their behavior, and would not be morally required to do so.
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Many are already philosophically opposed to in vitro fertilisation so you'd probably just succeed in alienating them more.
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There actually is a thought experiment to this effect: if you could run into a burning building and save either one 6-year old girl, OR a petri dish with a thousand fertilized human eggs… ?
Most pro-lifers admit they’d save the girl, but dispute the conclusion that follows.
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They would simply be horrified that you have created a thousand doomed lives in order to make a point
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