=== Governmentally protectable life begins when no other person's body is required to sustain us.
We're all doomed!!!!
NONE OF US HAS THE PROTECTION OF THE WELFARE STATE!!!
You would think that the welfare state would have been prohibited in the first place by the takings clause in the 5th Amendment, and the 13th Amendment preventing involuntary servitude, but alas, no Justice has had the balls or the ovaries to say what the Constitution says there, vis a vis the welfare state.