Why? Because Social Security, Medicare, and the pension funds will be broke, and we "elder" women will be of no use to anyone (except ourselves, as if that would matter.) And that's largely because my age cohort, and the next and the next, aborted the tens of millions of future Americans who would have been the young people in the workforce paying the taxes and fueliong the economy to support everyone (including older females.)
So, mark my words, the survivors of the Aborted Generations are going to find ways to dispose of the Aborter Generations.
Appalling. But there's a grim justice in it.
You can come live with us. I’ll teach you Spanglish and put you to work rocking babies, which I assume I’ll be having into my 50s.
On the “macro” scale, however, I think your analysis is correct. Women live longer and have higher medical costs than men, so the pure utilitarian tactic would be to eliminate elderly women.