That didn’t take long. Amid mounting backlash from his fellow Democrats and abortion advocates, including Planned Parenthood, former Vice President Joe Biden — the Democratic presidential frontrunner by a wide margin — reversed his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits using federal taxpayer money to fund abortions except in cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s life is in danger — a reversal that occurred in the span of just 24 hours.
Biden, one of the more moderate of the two dozen Democrats currently vying to take on Donald Trump in 2020, announced his new opposition to blocking taxpayer money from funding abortion during an event in Atlanta on Thursday. The announcement came just one day after his campaign reaffirmed his decades-long support for the Hyde Amendment, which, as CNN put it, positioned him “to the right of all other leading 2020 Democratic contenders, as well as Hillary Clinton and the party’s platform in 2016.”
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