> You make that sound like a good thing.
OpusatFR was saying, accurately, that this was among the original arguments for legalizing abortion and it was supposed to sound like a good thing. Evil doesn't sell, so bad things are always sold as good things. Plenty of people saw through it at the time but we were shouted down.
Once the principle is established, the evil practice will be expanded. Abortions, income taxes, socialized medicine, paper money, etc. Then all these pretty arguing points will vanish. Nobody's going to give a rat's rear whether the old folks were "mentally competent" to make a decision. They'll be killed off for the very simple reason that their medical care costs too much. It happens already, here.
Surrender to an evil and things always get worse. That's the nature of do-everything government.