Actually she did not say she was pro-choice, she said that if Roe vs Wade were over-turned, let the State’s decide. That does not say ‘I’m pro-choice’ It says I am State’s Rights believer.
Try that reasoning with any other unalienable right of the people and see how it works out for you.
Do you want the states to decide whether or not the people retain the right to free speech or freedom of the press?
Do you want the states to decide if the people retain parental rights or religious liberty”
Do you want the states to decide if the people retain the right to a jury trial, or the right to be secure in their persons and their papers?
Do you want the states to decide if the people retain the right to keep and bear arms?
And, again, let me remind you, the right to life is the supreme right. Without it, the individual person can never any enjoy any other right.
Don’t feed the Alan Keyes/third party, hijack troll, try to leave him alone, this is one of his favorite tactics on Palin threads.
To claim that men, or states, can decide whether the people have rights is to destroy the main premise of this country. The founders considered it to be self-evident truth that our rights come from God, not men, that those rights are therefore UNALIENABLE, and that the duty of government, the reason for its very existence, is to protect those rights.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."
And the Constitution is explicit about the imperative duty of all to do so. It spells out in no uncertain terms the responsibility of each and every state in this regard:
"No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
It's not optional.