“Does a right to life include a right to demand public (or private insurance) resources to artificially sustain that life?”
You MAY have a point if the child wasn’t improving. Sometimes being on a vent for a while is medical TREATMENT and not just artifical sustaining of life. A family in our church is going through this right now. Their baby would have died without the vent but with the vent he continued to improve until they were able to take him off completely.
If someone is basically dead and the machines are artifically sustaining life it is one thing. If the machines are needed until the body can heal it is quite another.
Excellent post!