Murder by starvation is somehow more evil than life by food pipe? It's a terrible fate either way, but the first has dignity. More importantly, however, is that this is an insult to Federalism and small government and states rights and everything a good Conservative stands for.
[O]f all the virtues which relate to our neighbor, mercy is the greatest, even as its act surpasses all others, since it belongs to one who is higher and better to supply the defect of another, in so far as the latter is deficient.Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, IIb, 30, no.4.