Irony: Notre Dame ralies alumni to "Fight for the lives of Children"

The kick-off for Notre Dame University's Fall fundraising campaign (here's why it's ironic):

The first in this year’s series of “What Are You Fighting For?” ads aired last Saturday during the Notre Dame vs. Nevada game. This installment featured Dr. Kasturi Haldar, Notre Dame biology professor and chair of the Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases.

Among the afflictions that Prof. Haldar works to cure, is Niemann-Pick Type C. Though this disease even sounds obscure, it is very real to Mike and Cindy Parseghian. Three of their four children were born with, and eventually died from, this syndrome. Prof. Haldar hopes that her research will lead to new treatments and cures, so that a rare disease diagnosis, like Niemann-Pick, is no longer a death sentence.

Fighting for the lives of children; it's one more battle our faculty and students couldn't wage without your support. Thank you.

You can watch this ad on our site: http://video.nd.edu/204-fighting-for-the-lives-of-children. I hope you enjoy it.

Don't get me wrong - I'm all for fighting for the lives of children.

I just want to see us fighting for the lives of *all* children.

And opposing those who continue to put millions of them in harms way.