Elizabeth Warren slams Biden’s support of the Hyde Amendment after she voted for it last year

“Yes,” she said, after Hayes asked if Biden was wrong to reaffirm his support of the Hyde Amendment. Warren went on to say how she remembers what it was like when abortion was illegal, and that women still got abortions. She then said the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits funding abortions with federal money, does not stop women from getting abortions but makes it harder for poorer women to get abortions.

“Who won’t will be poor women. It will be working women, it will be women who can’t afford to take off three days from work. It will be very young women. It will be women who have been raped, it will be women who have been molested by someone in their own family. We do not pass laws that take away that freedom from the women who are most vulnerable,” the presidential contender said.

“It’s been the law for a while, and it’s been wrong for a long time. Because it really is, it’s just discrimination,” she said.

But last fall, Warren voted in favor of the Hyde Amendment, which was attached to one of the government funding bills. She voted for the bill twice, and a final version was signed by President Trump.

Warren was joined in her vote by fellow presidential contenders former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas; Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was the only Democratic presidential contender in the House or Senate who voted no.

On Wednesday, Biden was the first Democratic candidate to say he would still support the Hyde Amendment if elected president. Harris, Gillibrand, Harris, Booker, and others have called for the repealing of the amendment. O’Rourke said Biden was “absolutely wrong” to continue supporting the amendment.

Warren is currently polling in third place in the Democrat presidential primary, polling 8.2% according to RealClearPolitics.