After holding the position for 40 years.
Via Free Beacon:
Liberal activist and actress Alyssa Milano helped convince Joe Biden to flip-flop on his previous support for the Hyde Amendment.
The 2020 frontrunner, after taking fire from his party’s left flank for supporting the banning of federal funding for most abortion procedures, abruptly changed his position on Thursday.
According to The Atlantic, that was in part due to Milano making a phone call to his campaign manager Greg Schultz:
Symone Sanders, one of Biden’s senior advisers, confronted him, she confirmed to me Thursday night, telling Biden that he was missing how his position disproportionately affected poorer women and women of color without easy access to abortion. Alyssa Milano, the actress who’s become a major online presence on issues of women’s rights as well as a friend of the Biden team, spoke by phone Wednesday to Biden campaign manager Greg Schultz, telling him the candidate needed to change. More calls came in, more tough conversations.