A 31-year-old Sen. Joe Biden expressed several drastically different policy views than those he holds presently in a 1974 interview he did with the Washingtonian.

Though he has recently been making headlines over his shifting position on the Hyde Amendment, his views on abortion were far less liberal more than 40 years ago. He said of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion nationally, “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.”