Mississippi 'Personhood' Law Could Cause Legal Mayhem, Experts Warn

Do prematurely born babies who require months in a NICU and lifelong special education and support on the taxpayers' dime have a "right to life"?

Do people who need heart transplants but can't afford them have a "right to life"?

So should we just kill all special needs babies as soon as they are born because of the cost to society? Perhaps we need to kill all the elderly too who are using up valuable resources in hospitals and nursing homes, right?

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but is withholding treatment/services (which have a pricetag that someone must pay) the same as "killing"?

I ask these questions and your response is "shock!"

What's your answer? Who is to pay?

We currently withhold treatment to elderly and others (and actively kill them) out of financial consideration, although it's usually explained as for humane reasons. For example, if a patient has a disease considered terminal (although his death isn't imminent) and he has an infection, his physician can (and has over the objections of the patient and the patient's family) refuse to treat the infection.

That's just one of many methods.