[NYer]

Ping!

[Huber]

The Observer reported that the church, led by the head of the world's Anglicans Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, could not accept the view that the life of any baby is not worth living. But it added there were "strong proportionate reasons" for "overriding the presupposition that life should be maintained", the weekly added.

This seems to have been taken out of context and over-emphazed by both the Peter Singer ethics crowd and the most vigilent on the pro-life side. Those familiar with Anglican-speak understand that it is entirely unreasonable to expect any sort of unqualified remark to come out of the Church of England. (Truman's joke about the one-handed economist comes to mind.)

However, we must agree that while there may be cases such as the brain stem example cited above where there may be no reasonable expectation of sustainable life, this is a terribly slippery slope and we must always err on the side of life.