James Talarico’s insistence that he “respects women” rings hollow when he avoids the word women and champions unfettered abortion and trans rhetoric that reduces women to body parts.

James Talarico is running as a Democrat in Texas and wants voters to believe he respects women, but his positions tell a different story. He supports unrestricted abortion on the taxpayer dime and has even been willing to assert that “the Bible condones abortion” to defend that stance. That kind of posture isn’t respect; it’s a political calculation that treats women as a policy point instead of people.

Abortion policies pushed by Democrats have real consequences for women, and many of those consequences are ignored in the rush to pander to extremes. The widespread availability of abortion drugs without proper safeguards has resulted in stories of women being harmed or coerced. When regulatory guardrails are stripped away, vulnerable people suffer and accountability vanishes.

Part of the problem is language. Talarico used a new euphemism for women that sounds sanitizing but actually strips identity: ‘neighbors with a uterus.’ That phrase trades a concrete category for a vague, clinical label, and that change matters because words shape policy. When political figures avoid saying women, they also avoid addressing women’s real needs and rights.

“Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state,” Talarico said at a church. That line was repeated in another clip, showing the phrase wasn’t a slip but a choice. He trips over the word women, then substitutes a sterile term, and that avoidance tells you where his priorities lie.

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Talarico almost says the word women and then backs away, which is revealing in itself. Choosing euphemisms instead of acknowledging women as a group gives cover to policies that harm them. Language matters because it defines the conversation and who gets protected.

The result is demeaning and dangerous for ordinary women trying to live their lives. Women have been marginalized, their sports and safe spaces invaded, and their biological reality denied in the name of ideological purity. When policy leaders refuse to name a class of people, they make it easier to ignore harms done to that class.

We are being renamed: we’re ‘neighbors with a uterus,’ ‘egg producers,’ ‘birthing persons,’ ‘menstruating individuals’—labels that reduce human beings to functions. Our athletic competitions, our shelters, and our legal protections are being reinterpreted to fit a political agenda. When women object, they often face professional and social punishment for speaking up.

Here we are, watching a politician swap clarity for euphemism while expecting applause for compassion. That’s an understatement; the trend is not neutral wording but erasure. The substitution of clinical phrases for human identities is a form of political theater that disguises real trade-offs.

Excellent question, and the answer is pretty blunt: language shifts are a tactic, not an accident. As always, social media amplified the moment and turned it into ridicule for Talarico rather than a sober debate about consequences. Voters should take note of what gets laughed at and what gets legislated.

Our guess on the outcome of this strategy is not optimistic for those who actually want to protect women and families. The Left’s latest cause du jour depends on convincing people that gender categories are fluid to the point of being meaningless. That campaign requires that women stop existing as a distinct group, because their existence would complicate the narrative the activists are pushing.

To keep that narrative afloat, politicians like Talarico lean on euphemisms and policy disconnects instead of facing the trade-offs of their agenda. That approach treats citizens as problems to be administrated rather than neighbors to be served.

Like all Democrats who flirt with these talking points, Talarico seems to reach for labels when he needs applause and avoid the word ‘woman’ when consequences follow. If you respect women, you say the word and act on behalf of their safety, dignity, and equal treatment in law and culture. Anything less is political posturing dressed up as compassion.