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. "I can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right," Biden said in a speech in Atlanta. "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. https://t.co/31Vzowl0zZ — NPR (@NPR) June 7, 2019Abortion-rights groups, including Planned Parenthood, and a number of Biden's opponents for the Democratic nomination criticized his support for Hyde this week. In a dramatic reversal, Joe Biden now says he no longer supports a ban on federal funding for abortions, known as the Hyde Amendment, ⁦@ColbyItkowitz⁩ reports.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 07, 2019 02:48 UTC