What happens when we older folk become just as "inconvenient" as an unwanted pregnancy? Shall we be terminated, too? If one end of the chronological string can be considered as expendable because the middle age group is "more important," why not the other end of the string be expendable, too? And what makes you think that it won't happen? What's to prevent it, when the precedent is already set and it makes things "simpler" for the middle age group?

Oh, I forget - we're "smarter" than that, and the government won't let that happen......