U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Thursday he no longer s...
Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden tours the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative in Plymouth, New Hampshire, U.S., June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Biden, the front-runner in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination and a former vice president, said he had changed his long-held position on the Hyde Amendment because the right to an abortion was now under assault in many states and increasingly inaccessible for low-income women. “If I believe healthcare is a right, as I do, I can longer support an amendment that makes that right dependent on someone’s zip code,” he said.
Abortion-rights groups, including Planned Parenthood, and a number of Biden’s opponents for the Democratic nomination criticized his support for Hyde this week.
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