Showing posts with label Priests for life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Priests for life. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 March 2011

"Priests for life" "save" Baby Joseph, the pro-life poster child

Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton, has a written an opinion piece examining a utilitarian analysis of what could have been achieved with the $150,000 Priests for Life spent on an operation for a child with no existing or anticipated quality of life. Hint: the answer is to have instead saved at least 150 lives worth living. Article here:

Attempted rescue of Baby Joseph Maraachli, pro-life poster child, is deeply misguided

And yes, this really is an image from the Priests for Life webpage.