Within a single 24-hour period, the former Vice President flip-flopped on the Hyde Amendment, insisting that he was not rejecting his previous position on abortion funding and would make “no apologies for the last position,” which obviously was a rejection. When retractions and contradictions affect matters of life or death, political accommodation takes on an ominous character.
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Joe Biden’s ominous inconsistency
Fr. George W. Rutler, Crisis
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Within a single 24-hour period, the former Vice President flip-flopped on the Hyde Amendment, insisting that he was not rejecting his previous position on abortion funding and would make “no apologies for the last position,” which obviously was a rejection. When retractions and contradictions affect matters of life or death, political accommodation takes on an ominous character.