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FOCUS: Joe Biden Worked to Undermine the Affordable Care Act's Coverage of Contraception



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FOCUS: Joe Biden Worked to Undermine the Affordable Care Act's Coverage of Contraception 
Vice President Joe Biden answers questions at Central Bucks High School West in Doylestown, Pa., on Jan. 13, 2012. (photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
Ryan Grim, The Intercept
Grim writes: "As vice-president, Joe Biden repeatedly sought to undermine the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate, working in alliance with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to push for a broad exemption that would have left millions of women without coverage." 

EXCERPT: 

“When it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I’m about as liberal as your grandmother,” Biden said in a June 1974 article. “I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far. I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”
Because Biden’s anti-Roe comments came so long ago — more than four decades — some have argued they are of little value in gauging his current politics. But his battle against contraception, and his unwillingness to join the bulk of the Democratic field and call for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, puts him dramatically out of step with today’s party.





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