1. A constitutional right to privacy, which Palin says we have, and Antonin Scalia, for one, says we don’t, is the very underpinning of Roe v. Wade. Palin’s answer undermines 35 years of “right to life” talking points.
2. If a right is constitutional, then under the 14th amendment states cannot abridge that right — “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State 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.” Palin says the right is constitutional but up to the states. Sorry Governor, not since 1868.
The right to privacy was recognized by the Supreme Court in 1965 in Griswold v. Connecticut, a case where the Court found a Connecticut law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to be unconstitutional.