Does Biden's flip on the Hyde Amendmant make him look "woke" or just another crass oportunistic politician?

Back in the seventies Biden was anti-Roe -- marching in the annual March for Life, along with Democrats such as Jesse Jackson and Harry Reid (the Democratic Party was the Party of Life back then --it was a WASP Republican Court which did Roe).

But then he took the familiar politically opportunistic cop out "personally opposed to abortion but not going to impose his beliefs on others" and was an earnest supporter of the Hyde amendment (since half of taxpayers are morally opposed to abortion not going to use their money to fund it) and he would try to wear his Catholicism on his sleeve. But now.....

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Northwest · M

[quote]personally opposed to abortion but not going to impose his beliefs on others[/quote]

And why is this political opportunism? It's the approach everyone should be taking. He may also realize that he does not have a uterus, evolved to accept that, and understand that a pregnant woman, should be the only authority on whether an abortion is allowed.

beckychandler · F

@Northwest The argument that only women have the right to make a decision about abortion is not persuasive to those who oppose abortion because they believe that since the individuals in the class of unborn humans are genetically distinct (which is biologically indisputable) from the mother, they also have rights, and those rights to exist trump the rights of the woman --in whatever way those are defined.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@beckychandler If all a cluster of cells needs to be is biologically distinct from the woman by that metric bacteria have rights.

Northwest · M

You do realize that slapping together a few intelligent sounding words in a non coherent fashion, still produces a non coherent response, right?

@beckychandler