Former Vice President Joe Biden's complicated position on abortion had seemed to have evolved this year when the American Civil Liberties Union posted video of him telling a woman at a May presidential campaign event that the Hyde Amendment had to go.
Ending the Hyde Amendment is a pretty orthodox thing for a mainstream Democrat these days. It was part of the official party platform in 2016.But Biden is not an orthodox Democrat on this issue and the Hyde Amendment is not orthodox policy.Here's what you need to know about both Biden's position on abortion and the Hyde Amendment. Note: Much of the information in this piece comes from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Congressional Research Service.
The end result in the Affordable Care Act is a complicated system whereby plans subsidized under the law can cover abortions as long as the insurance company segregates the funds that cover abortion into a separate account. Some states ban coverage for abortion in subsidized plans altogether. In additional states, there are no Affordable Care Act marketplace plans that cover abortion.
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