“Other than the right to live, what other unalienable rights would you like “the states to be able to decide”?
The right to keep and bear arms?
Free speech?
Freedom of the press?
The right to peaceably assemble?
The right to petition government for redress of grievances?
The right to a jury trial?”
These are rights gauranteed be the constitution.
The 10 amendment states (paraphrasing) that those rights not specifically grated by the constitution are left to the states.
Abortion is not a right granted by the constitution and therefore is an issue for states to decide.
Sarah Palin is correct.
That makes absolutely no sense. The Tenth Amendment says that anything not prohibited by the Constitution to the states is reserved to the states and TO THE PEOPLE RESPECTIVELY. The right to life is an individual right, one which is unalienable, according to the founders of the United States of America.
The right to life was given by God, not any man or any constitution anyway. The founders knew this, and asserted it as self-evident truth, stating that the protection of it is the purpose of government, all government.
Including state governments.
But, just to make it easy for simpletons who have never given a thought to God’s law, or the natural law, or God-given unalienable rights, the Fourteenth Amendment makes it clear that all states must protect the life of all innocent persons and provide for the equal protection of the laws.
Even Blackmun, the author of Roe vs Wade, admitted as much in the decision itself. He said that if the “fetus” is a person, they are “of course” protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
By the way, the Republican platform has asserted this exact thing since Ronald Reagan put it there 25 years ago.