James Talarico
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4,239 appearances
18 recordings
14 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Jun
James Talarico’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So when I use the word woman, it should not be understood as an exhaustive term, but rather as a lens through which to understand, examine, and interrogate patriarchy.
The disagreement about the legality of abortion is not a disagreement about life.
It's a disagreement about personhood.
No one disagrees that an embryo is biologically alive.
We each have trillions of living organisms inside of us right now as we sit and talk in the sanctuary.
So the question is, is an embryo a legal person whose rights trump those of a woman?
I don't know many people
who would seriously answer yes to that question.
Legal personhood evolves with life, and life is change without clear or definite boundaries.
But the only way we can allow the rights of an embryo to trump the rights of a woman is if we believe a woman is not a full person.
And let me remind you that that has been the default belief throughout most of human history.
Being Christian
and being pro-choice are absolutely consistent because Christianity is a feminist religion.
In a time when there's so much debate about what it means to be a man, my dad showed me.
Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn.
And then without telling anyone, without anyone asking him, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn.
She was elderly.
She was a widow.
He never talked about it.
He just did it because that's what a man does.
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