Talarico's move to swap out 'woman' resurfaces amid backlash over similar bill in NY: 'Insane individual'

James Talarico, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, once swapped out the term "woman" with "pregnant individual" in a bill that would have created protections for abortion in the Lone Star State.

The bill would have prevented "the prosecution of a pregnant individual on whom an abortion is performed or induced" and eliminated any Texas law that would have regulated or prohibited an abortion.

It never made it past consideration in committee.

Despite its stalled progress, the...