Christians can support the intentional destruction of innocent preborn babies in the womb—at least that is what the Democratic Party’s U.S. Senate candidate in Texas thinks.

State representative James Talarico recently defeated congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Senate primary. Talarico has centered much of his campaign on repackaging leftist positions under the guise of Christianity. For the past year, he has been appearing on podcasts, including Joe Rogan’s show, arguing Christians can support abortion.

While someone does not have to be religious to oppose abortion, the Christian case against killing innocent preborn babies is straightforward: God created all human beings and endowed them with a soul; therefore, it is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human, because that is God’s creation.

Talarico thinks otherwise.

“Abortion is never mentioned” in the Bible, Talarico told the Ezra Klein Show. Host Klein shared his concerns about “politicized Christianity.”

Talarico used similar phrasing on comedian Stephen Colbert’s show. Talarico said the “Christian right” convinced “our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage.”

“Two issues that aren’t mentioned in the Bible,” Talarico claimed again. “Two issues that Jesus never talked about.”

The Democrat made clear in his interview with Klein, however, that he fully supports abortion. Since his primary election, videos and posts have also been circulating on social media and highlighting the candidate’s extremism, including his support for opening abortion facilities on public lands.

Talarico’s approach is the latest way Democrats have attempted to appeal to religious voters, including those who oppose abortion. Even though the party platform called the overturning of Roe v. Wade “extreme,” Talarico claimed there is a “ton of room” for religious pro-lifers in the Democratic Party.

Democrats in the past have tried to get their religious voters to put aside their beliefs when it comes to voting. “And one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to agree: The government, and Donald Trump certainly, should not be telling a woman what to do with her body,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in 2024.

This line echoes an illogical statement from the late New York Governor Mario Cuomo that someone could be politically pro-choice but “personally pro-life.”

Now politicians such as Talarico are going further, claiming not just that Christians should look the other way on abortion, but they should embrace it.

A pro-life leader warned about the “corrosive” approach the Texas Democrat is using.

Talarico “aims to neutralize moral resistance, not by refuting the humanity of the child, but by recasting abortion as a spiritual duty dressed up as compassion,” Raimundo Rojas with National Right to Life wrote recently.

Our duty as Christians and defenders of life is not to support abortion, but the opposite, standing up for the dignity of all human beings from conception until natural death.