The greatest possible good

As far as I can tell, the blogger Morning's Minion (MM), on the blog Vox Nova (for example, here and here), is one of many that have not grasped all of the teaching in (e.g.) the encyclical Veritatis Splendor. He says:
Take abortion and torture, two instrinsically evil acts. If one chooses torture instead of abortion on the grounds [...]