Talarico's Warped View of Personhood

Amy Curtis | May 31, 2026 9:00 AM

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

This is a concept so simple that Dr. Seuss articulated it perfectly in 'Horton Hears a Who.' Yet it's an inconvenient truth for the Left, who find the concept of personhood to be, at best, situational. If, for example, you are an unborn child, you are not a person until some magical, arbitrary moment, even though the difference between a newborn infant and a baby at 40 weeks of gestation is where they happen to be living.

But it's essential for the Left to un-person the unborn because admitting an unborn child is a separate human being deals an incredible blow to their radical abortion agenda. See, Democrats are no longer the party of 'safe, legal, and rare' abortions.

They're the party of more, more, more abortions. Many a Democrat has built his or her career on the 66 million-plus dead infants by vowing to add exponentially to that body count. And if a few women die in the process, it's a small price to pay.

That's what James Talarico is doing, arguing that there's a difference between being alive and being a person.

Every single tyrannical regime in the world has justified the mass killing of people by deciding that, for whatever reason, certain groups of people weren't actually persons anymore. The Nazis did it to the Jews, Mao did it in China, even in America slavery meant that Blacks were not considered real people.

It's a fetid, blood-soaked ideology. But it's one Talarico seems happy to embrace because he also wants more aborted babies.

This, of course, is how the Democrats justify attacking their political opponents, too. By dehumanizing us — we're Nazis, white supremacists, existential threats to democracy, domestic terrorists — they create a permission structure under which it's okay to beat and murder us.

Cole Allen did that when he tried to storm the White House Correspondents' Dinner last month to assassinate President Trump and other high-ranking Cabinet members. In California, 69-year-old veteran Kerry Sheron was beaten outside his Escondido home, one that was replete with American flags and Trump swag. Sheron died on Memorial Day from the injuries he sustained in the attack, one that Sheron's wife believes was politically motivated. And last September, Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah because his killer didn't like Charlie's politics.

When you dehumanize someone, you make it much easier to justify committing atrocities against them. We've already done that to tens of millions of unborn children, children whom the Left described as 'clumps of cells' and other euphemisms in order to assuage their consciences. James Talarico is just continuing in the tradition of his party.