'If I believe health care is a right, as I do, I can no longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone's ZIP code,' Biden said on Thursday.
2020 Democratic hopeful Joe Biden flipped on a controversial abortion measure he had supported for decades on Thursday evening, just 24 hours after his presidential campaign co-chairman praised the former vice president for his consistency on the issue.
Just 24 hours after Richmond's CNN interview, Biden officially reversed his position on the Hyde Amendment. Speaking at a dinner in Atlanta Thursday evening, Biden said he could not simultaneously believe that health care is a right while also supporting the anti-abortion measure. The controversial Hyde Amendment prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion services except in certain circumstances, including a pregnancy by incest or rape, or when a pregnancy threatens the mother's life.
Biden's position on the amendment made headlines recently after he accidentally told an American Civil Liberties Union volunteer that the abortion measure needed to be removed."It can't stay," he said to the volunteer last month. The exchange was captured in a video that has since gone viral.
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