In 2015: “I’m prepared to accept that at the moment of conception there’s human life and being, but I’m not prepared to say that to other God-fearing, non-God-fearing people that have a different view.”

"The Obama-Biden administration fought Republican attacks on funding for Planned Parenthood again and again. As president, Biden will reissue guidance specifying that states cannot refuse Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and other providers that refer for abortions or provide related information and reverse the Trump Administration’s rule preventing Planned Parenthood and certain other family planning programs from obtaining Title X funds." § "... former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday he no longer supports the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal dollars from directly funding abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and when the mother’s life is endangered." World, June 7, 2019

Repeatedly voted for a ban on partial-birth abortion, but he has not commented on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

"No one should be fired simply because of who they are or who they love. We must pass the Equality Act and ensure LGBTQ Americans are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve."

The Founders "took religion out of government, but they didn't mean religion couldn't be in the public place, in the public square."

"Joe Biden laid out his foreign policy vision for America to restore dignified leadership at home and respected leadership on the world stage. Arguing that our policies at home and abroad are deeply connected, Joe Biden announced that, as president, he will advance the security, prosperity, and values of the United States by taking immediate steps to renew our own democracy and alliances, protect our economic future, and once more place America at the head of the table, leading the world to address the most urgent global challenges."

Obamacare with private option, "Medicare by choice." "Biden has vowed to 'build on' the ACA, popularly known as Obamacare after his former boss, by adding a public option that would leave the current private insurance system in place."

No.

To finance the health-care plan, he would 1) increase the top marginal income tax rate on long-term capital gains to 39.6 percent for taxpayers earning more than $1 million annually, and 2) eliminate a tax expenditure called “step-up in basis” that allows decedents to pass capital gains to heirs without tax. "The 2020 front-runner is proposing to raise the top individual income tax rate to 39.6 percent, which is where the top rate was set before President Trump's tax-cut law was enacted. The top individual rate is currently 37 percent. Additionally, Biden is proposing to increase taxes on wealthy people's capital gains, which people pay when they sell investments. The top rate on long-term capital gains is currently 20 percent, and Biden is proposing to roughly double that for those making over $1 million. Biden's campaign also said that his 'capital gains reform will close the loopholes that allow the super wealthy to avoid taxes on capital gains altogether.' This isn't the first time Biden expressed an interest in increasing capital gains taxes. He has repeatedly said in campaign events that he thinks capital gains taxes are too low. He has also called for ending a tax break known as 'step-up in basis' that reduces capital gains tax liability on investments people pass on to their heirs. Biden is one of a number of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who are calling for higher capital gains taxes."

“We should be increasing, not decreasing, Social Security.” Biden’s campaign calls for making Social Security solvent. Currently, the program’s trust funds are expected to be depleted in 2035, at which point it will pay just 80% of promised benefits. To achieve those goals, Biden’s plan calls for raising taxes on the wealthy by “asking Americans with especially high wages to pay the same taxes on those earnings that middle-class families pay.”

It’s “well past time that the minimum wage nationally be a minimum of $15.”

No. "We need border security, but that's not the border security we need."

"....DREAMers are Americans — and it’s time we make it official."

Asylum seekers should be let in immediately.

"Support our educators by giving them the pay and dignity they deserve. Invest in resources for our schools so students grow into physically and emotionally healthy adults, and educators can focus on teaching. Ensure that no child’s future is determined by their zip code, parents’ income, race, or disability. Provide every middle and high school student a path to a successful career. Start investing in our children at birth."

Does not support federal funding towards charter schools. "Any charter school system that does not allow for total enrollment siphons off money for our public schools, which are already in enough trouble."

"Eliminate the death penalty."

No.

"No one should be in jail for drug use." // "As early as 1977, Mr. Biden, with Mr. Eastland’s support, pushed for mandatory minimum sentences that would limit judges’ discretion in sentencing."

No. "We should be passing rational gun laws, not requiring educators who already have too much on their plates to also protect the safety of their students. Biden supports barring states from using federal dollars to arm or train educators to discharge firearms." "The Biden Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic." https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/

"In 1993, he shepherded through Congress the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which established the background check system that has since kept more than 3 million firearms out of dangerous hands. In 1994, Biden – along with Senator Dianne Feinstein – secured the passage of 10-year bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. As president, Joe Biden will defeat the NRA again." "The Biden Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic".https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/

“I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather. I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation, and I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.” ABC News Democratic Debate. September 12, 2019. https://youtu.be/2UWVO0Trd1c?t=7606

“The domestic terrorism of white supremacy has been the antagonist of our highest ideals from before our founding...” “The same poisonous ideology that lit the fuse at 16th Street pulled the trigger in Mother Emanuel, unleashed the anti-Semitic massacre in Pittsburgh and Poway, and saw a white supremacist gun down innocent Latino immigrants in an El Paso parking lot with military-grade weapons declaring it would stop a ‘Hispanic invasion of Texas.’"

"First thing I will do as president is rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and rally the world to push our progress further and faster."

In 2016: "We will continue to push back against the calls for people to boycott, disinvest, or sanction Israel." In 2019: “America must sustain its ironclad commitment to Israel’s security—including the unprecedented support provided by the Obama-Biden administration..."

"But the fiction of widespread voter fraud continues to persist. Because, without it, no American worth their salt could ever defend these new laws in limiting the franchise."

"LGBTQ rights are the civil rights issue of our time. For all the hard-won progress made in the fight for equality, and for as much as we can celebrate how much better things have gotten, this fight is not over. I’m proud to stand by those who fight for it every day."

Catholic.