Philadelphia, Pa., Jun 10, 2019 / 17:01 pm
Joe Biden, the former senator and vice president and now a Democratic presidential hopeful, once represented a more moderate position on abortion for the Democratic party.
In the years immediately following Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion throughout the U.S., then-senator Biden was critical of the law.
"(W)hen it comes to issues like abortion, amnesty, and acid, I'm about as liberal as your grandmother," he said in 1974. "I don't like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I think it went too far."
Biden was among several legislators - many of them Democrats - who attended the first pro-life marches in Washington, D.C. But as his party shifted staunchly to the hard left on abortion, so did Biden.