The Atlantic analyzes Biden’s evolution on abortion policy and politics, highlighting specifically the role of his 2020 campaign staff in pushing him to align better with progressive Democrats. In response specifically to Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment, which bans the spending of federal funds on abortion procedures, Biden senior advisor Symone Sanders – a Black woman – confirms that she confronted her boss and told him that he was missing how his position disproportionately affected poor women and women of color without easy access to abortion. Her influence speaks to the importance of representation among campaign staff. Biden and his team were also lobbied by other prominent supporters to change his position on the issue. At a DNC event on June 6, 2019, Biden told the audience of his reversal, “I can’t justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and the ability to constitute—exercise their constitutionally protected right.”