On Wednesday, Biden's campaign said he supported banning the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortions under Medicaid. On Thursday, he reversed course.
Joe Biden’s announcement this week that he had reversed decades of opposition to using federal funds to pay for most abortions capped a rapid move within his party against what had been one of the few compromises in abortion politics.
By the time the Obama administration ended, by contrast, Democrats had adopted a call for repeal of the Hyde Amendment as part of their 2016 party platform. Biden has had to quickly catch up to where the Democratic base is today. Biden once voted to ban certain abortion procedures conducted late in pregnancy and was proud of his “middle of the road” position against the federal funding of abortion, as he wrote in his 2007 book, “Promises to Keep.”
When the amendment first passed, it was not controversial; abortion rights supporters assumed the Supreme Court would knock the policy down. It didn’t. The Hyde amendment “is discriminatory against people with low incomes and it also specifically discriminates and further silos out abortion care and treats it as different than any other aspect of healthcare,” said Wen.
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