Culture of Death Watch.

Wesley Smith writes:

Patient autonomy is fast becoming a one-way street. Choose to die by refusing life-sustaining treatment–sacrosanct! Want to live with life-sustaining treatment?  Not your call.

The same rule works for abortion:  women have a sacrosanct right to the choice to kill their unborn children; men have no right to the choice to pay child support.

The principle that underlies these diametrically opposed positions on the "right to choice", keeping welfare costs down.