Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reversed course and declared he no longer supports a congressional ban on using federal money to pay for abortions.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reversed his stance on the controversial Hyde Amendment after two days of intense criticism from political rivals and women's rights groups.
Biden’s reversal came after rival candidates and women’s rights groups assailed him for affirming through his campaign aides that. With the shift, Biden hopes to limit any damage from women’s groups and progressives who already are skeptical about whether a 76-year-old, more centrist white man can be the party standard-bearer in 2020.
“I’ve been struggling with the problems that Hyde now presents,” Biden said, opening a speech dedicated mostly to voting rights and issues important to the black community with an explanation of a significant policy shift. Biden, a Roman Catholic who has wrestled publicly with abortion policy for decades, said he voted as a senator to support the Hyde Amendment because he believed that women would still have access to abortion even without Medicaid insurance and other federal healthcare grants. Now, he says, there are too many barriers that threaten that constitutional right.
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