Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Joe Biden is under fire from his Democratic presidential rivals and women’s rights advocates for his defense of a decades-old prohibition on federal money paying for abortions. Most Democratic White House hopefuls reflect their party’s latest platform calling for the outright repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which traces back to a compromise made when Biden was a young Delaware senator in the years after the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling legalized abortion nationwide. Massachusetts Senenator Elizabeth Warren, during an MSNBC town hall in Indiana, said Biden was wrong to support the abortion funding restriction. ‘‘Women of means will still have access to abortions,’’ Warren said. ‘‘Who won’t will be poor women, will be working women, will be women who can’t afford to take off three days from work.’’ But a Biden campaign spokesman said Wednesday that the former vice president supports the measure, though he ‘‘would be open to repealing it’’ if abortion access is further threatened by restrictive state laws, like those recently passed in Georgia and Alabama. The hedging prompted intraparty outcry, with top Democrats reaffirming their commitment to abortion rights and scrapping the Hyde Amendment. The pushback marked the first significant instance in which virtually the entire crowded 2020 field united to critique Biden, who has emerged as an early Democratic front-runner. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has campaigned as an unapologetic ... Link to the full article to read more