Biden campaign confirms he supports controversial abortion rule: report

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5. Secretary Clinton highlighted the repeal of the amendment on the national stage during her campaign.

The 2016 platform marked the first time the Democratic platform had an explicit call to repeal the Hyde Amendment.[9] The platform states:

We believe unequivocally, like the majority of Americans, that every woman should have access to quality reproductive health care services, including safe and legal abortion—regardless of where she lives, how much money she makes, or how she is insured. We believe that reproductive health is core to women's, men's, and young people's health and well being. We will continue to stand up to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood health centers, which provide critical health services to millions of people. We will continue to oppose—and seek to overturn—federal and state laws and policies that impede a woman's access to abortion, including by repealing the Hyde Amendment.[26]

Hillary Clinton advocated for a repeal of the Hyde Amendment throughout her 2016 Presidential campaign. She was quoted as saying, "Any right that requires you to take extraordinary measures to access it is no right at all" at a campaign rally in New Hampshire.[27] The Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine reportedly stood with his running mate on the issue, despite formerly having been a supporter of the Hyde Amendment.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Amendment#Support_for_the_Amendment

Why Hillary Clinton’s Call-Out of the Hyde Amendment Is So Important

https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/01/why-hillary-clinton-s-call-out-of-the-hyde-amendment-is-so-important.html