You are forgetting the privacy (read 'secrecy') of medical records.

The difference is that you went to the hospital while Sarah Palin took a plane. There were no hospitals in Dallas? Arriving in Anchorage she did not go to a hospital but she drove to a tiny hospital. Most women would try to do the opposite. One might think that a 44 year old woman with a high risk pregnancy would be more informed and more careful. Can she be trusted with serious decisions if she has such a risky behavior vis-a-vis her own unborn child?

Read what Alaskan paper had to say March 6, a month and a half before Trig's birth: "SEVEN MONTHS ALONG: Even her staff was unaware that the first family was expecting a fifth child." "Palin said she's not aiming to take any time off from her job as governor, assuming all goes well with the pregnancy." http://www.adn.com/front/story/336402.html
Three days after giving birth Sarah Palin was back at work: http://www.adn.com/626/story/382864.html
Meanwhile Bristol was out of school for 4-5 months with a bad case of mono. During which time she got pregnant (if she is 5 months pregnant)!