When Meghan McCain gave birth to Liberty, her daughter with husband Ben Domenech, she felt grateful for family, the medical care she received while battling postnatal preeclampsia, and, as she shared on ABC’s The View, the paid maternity leave her company offered. However, when she returned to The View, she shared with the audience and the rest of the co-hosts that she was not just thankful, she was also angry — angry that more conservatives have not supported paid maternity leave like the kind she had just experienced.

“Everything about our ideology sort of stems from the nucleus of the family, that we are leaving women in this country without the capacity and ability unless you have an employer that allows you to, to take care of your child, to heal physically, which is something that needs to happen,” McCain said, calling the lack of nationwide, mandatory, paid maternity leave “a dark spot” that leaders need to resolve if “we are going to give women and families the capacity to grow in the way we want.”