{"id":29135,"date":"2026-05-27T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29135"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:06:15","slug":"talarico-doubles-down-on-antibiblical-abortion-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=29135","title":{"rendered":"Talarico Doubles Down on Antibiblical Abortion Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Democratic Texas state Rep. and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico recently reiterated his belief that the Bible doesn\u2019t prohibit abortion, and that the government shouldn\u2019t restrict it.\n<\/p>\n

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Speaking during the third part of an\u00a0hours-long interview\u00a0with podcaster and former L\u2019Or\u00e9al CEO Jamie Kern Lima that aired Sunday, Talarico was asked to explain his views on abortion \u201cas a Presbyterian seminarian\u201d and how he \u201carrived at them from a biblical perspective.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Noting abortion is \u201can issue that a lot of Christians struggle with, and that there\u2019s a lot of fierce and passionate debate within our faith communities,\u201d Talarico said he believes that \u201cpeople of good faith can arrive at different moral conclusions, and I feel like we do not have the kind of tolerance for that disagreement right now within the church, within our politics, and it\u2019s corrosive.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

James Talarico on abortion: \u201cI trust Texas women to make decisions about their own bodies, to shape their own destinies. I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s a place for government. That\u2019s a belief I hold not despite my faith, but because of my faith. Jesus never talks about abortion. The\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/KjIU94ukqU<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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While he acknowledged Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV as his \u201cspiritual heroes,\u201d Talarico said he disagrees with them on the topic.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI trust Texas women to make decisions about their own bodies, to shape their own destinies in consultation with their family members, their doctors, their faith leaders. I don\u2019t believe that\u2019s a place for government. I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a place for politicians. I don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a place for the state. And that\u2019s a belief I hold not despite my faith, but because of my faith,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus never talks about abortion. The Bible is silent on abortion. And when that happens with a social issue as important as abortion, we Christians have to take Scripture as a whole. And we\u2019ve got to try to make some kind of ethical determination,\u201d he continued, going on to accuse Texas\u2019 abortion ban of shutting out victims of rape and incest from accessing abortion.\n<\/p>\n

Talarico has\u00a0repeatedly defended abortion and homosexuality\u00a0by noting there is no record of Jesus addressing such topics in the Bible, a tactic that\u00a0Robert Gagnon, who serves as Visiting Scholar at Wesley Biblical Seminary in Ridgeland, Mississippi, dismissed as \u201cjuvenile hermeneutics\u201d in\u00a0a lengthy X post\u00a0in March.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bible doesn\u2019t mention every issue in society. The absence of mention of abortion is no more significant than its absence of mention of the cruelty of infant exposure,\u201d Gagnon wrote.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evidence that we do have from both Testaments of Scripture and from the unified witness of early Christian texts in the period from the second century A.D. on leave little doubt about the church\u2019s consistent stance against abortion as a grave wrong.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Despite claiming the Bible is silent on abortion, Talarico has used Scripture, including the story of the Annunciation in the Gospel of Luke, to\u00a0defend his pro-abortion views.\n<\/p>\n

During an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan last July, Talarico claimed the Virgin Mary assenting to the angel Gabriel\u2019s message regarding the Immaculate Conception suggests the Bible is pro-choice, and that a woman\u2019s consent is part of the creation process.\n<\/p>\n

Talarico also claimed to Rogan that Genesis teaches life begins with breath, echoing\u00a0a theological argument\u00a0floated in 2019 by former Secretary of Transportation and outspoken Episcopalian Pete Buttigieg to justify late-term abortion.\n<\/p>\n

Talarico said during a sermon in 2022 that he believes abortion rights are also relevant to transgender-identifying individuals, claiming \u201cevery one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state\u201d when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0that year. He said, \u201cnothing is more un-Christian than that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Talarico has\u00a0also claimed\u00a0the Bible rejects the idea of \u201cembryonic personhood,\u201d likening embryos to any other cell or bacteria in the human body. In a 2016 op-ed, Talarico\u2019s PCUSA pastor, Jim Rigby,\u00a0compared\u00a0aborted babies to \u201cextracted teeth.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

During the\u00a0first part\u00a0of his interview with Lima that aired May 14, Talarico claimed he got into politics because of his Christian faith and that he must often remind himself that human beings bear the image of God.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI always try to remember that everyone I come across is the expression of a divine source. Every person that I meet is the bearer of a sacred image. And I forget that all the time. We all forget it all the time,\u201d he said, adding that remembering others are image-bearers makes him \u201cmore effective [at] bringing people over who may not agree with me on a lot of other issues.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is valuing each and every person and valuing their humanity. And that really stems from those teachings that my granddad passed on to me and that Jesus is still communicating to us 2,000 years later,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

Talarico, who won Texas\u2019 Democratic U.S. Senate primary in March, will face off this November against the\u00a0winner of Tuesday\u2019s runoff\u00a0Republican primary between Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.\n<\/p>\n

What do you think of Talarico\u2019s views? Share your thoughts and prayers below.<\/h4>\n

This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Screenshot\/Marco Foster via X.<\/em>
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