James Talarico
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4,239 appearances
18 recordings
14 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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available contraception.
These are all policies, universal healthcare, prenatal and maternal healthcare.
We know that all of these policies work to reduce the number of abortions, and that should be a giant area of common ground, no matter where you land on the legality of abortion itself.
Well, again, if people are...
truly pro-life, they should be deeply disturbed by this abortion ban in Texas because we have women who are literally dying in emergency room parking lots because their doctors are too afraid to provide the basic healthcare they need.
We have rape victims who are being forced to give birth to their rapist babies.
We have...
Politicians trying to control what public highways women are using to travel out of state to get the care they need and who are suffering because of it.
And I will also say we've seen infant mortality and maternal mortality spike since this extreme abortion ban.
So we should always look to...
the fruits that a tree bears.
And I think the fruits that are being born by this policy in Texas are not good fruit.
It's death, it's suffering, it's trauma.
And I think we have to take those fruits very seriously when evaluating, is a policy actually promoting life more abundantly?
And I would submit that if we treated abortion as a public health issue, if we focused on prevention, making sure that people have the knowledge and tools and resources to prevent an unplanned pregnancy, that we could actually reduce the number of abortions in this country together, whether you're against abortion rights or you're in favor of abortion rights.
That's common ground that we can find.
And so that would be my recommendation to anyone who, because this is an important issue, no matter where you fall on it.
It's deeply emotional.
It's deeply personal.
But I actually think if we listen to each other a little more and find out that we have common ground here, if your goal is to reduce the number of abortions you have placed in this campaign, and we can work on that together, even if we may disagree on the legality question.
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