Biden, who has vowed to pick a female running mate, has sometimes haltingly responded to the seismic shift toward women’s rights and protection from sexual harassment.
Biden laid out his view: “Those of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them. As you may know, I have consistently — on no fewer than 50 occasions — voted against federal funding of abortions.”Yet Biden also repeatedly stressed that he would vote against efforts to ban abortion, and in 1992 hewhich was designed to protect a woman’s right to an abortion.
“You just want Anita Hill sitting on the other side of the table,” Moseley-Braun responded, meaning that Biden wanted a Black woman to sit alongside him instead of across from him at a witness table. Moseley-Braun said in an interview that she initially resisted but Biden “just kept talking” and eventually persuaded her.recruitment of Moseley-Braun and Sen.
Rachel Gorlin, a Capitol Hill veteran who became campaign press secretary for Rep. Les AuCoin, the Oregon Democrat who had tried to unseat Packwood in 1992, said that the revelations shook Congress. “I don’t think there was any woman or any man on Capitol Hill who was not aware of the fact that the issue of sexual harassment was public and it was no longer under wraps,” Gorlin said.
Several people who were close to her during that time offered some corroboration of her account, although records of a complaint she said she filed with a congressional personnel office have not surfaced. Reade has testified in court as an expert on domestic violence. In May, some defense attorneys said they would seek to overturn convictions that relied upon testimony from Reade because she might have provided false information under oath, including overstating academic credentials.Biden continued his efforts to put women in key jobs and pass the Violence Against Women Act.
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