Arnold Gets Real...

Many of us on the Right don't like California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, primarily because of his liberal social views. He supports abortion, for one thing. I should correct that - he supports a woman's right to chose - I get the feeling that he thinks the practice itself is abhorrent. And he is realistic about the absurd lengths to which abortion supporters will go to avoid any limits on abortion, and to promote as many abortions as possible.

In California there is a ballot initiative coming up that would make most abortions for minors illegal without prior notification of the girls' parents or guardians. Arnold makes clear his support for Proposition 73 in his usual candid manner, in an article in the Sacramento Bee:

"I have a daughter," Schwarzenegger said in an interview with The Bee. "I wouldn't want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him if they do that."

He then says that he doesn't mean that literally, but elaborates on his thinking about the subject:

"They call me when my daughter falls off the jungle gym in the school and they say, 'What do you want us to use? Can we put a Band-Aid on it? Do you want to come in? She's crying a little bit.'

"They call us about everything. I don't want them in that particular incident not to call us."

Pretty simple reasoning, isn't it. Spoken from a parent's point of view. We need more of that.