Obama Surrenders In Obamacare Battle

Voluntarily seeks dismissal of appeal over health-care mandate

The Obama administration has surrendered in a key fight with a business over the abortion pill mandate in the president’s Obamacare health industry takeover, asking a federal court to dismiss an appeal of a ruling that prevented application of the mandate.

The move was confirmed today by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing Tyndale House Publishers.

Tyndale, of Carol Stream, Ill., went to court earlier because it objects to providing abortifacients as Obamacare requires of every health coverage plan.

Tyndale, the world’s largest privately held Christian publisher of books, Bibles, and digital media, won at a lower court level with an order that the abortifacient requirement not be applied in its case.

The Obama administration had appealed that ruling, but now ADF reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has dismissed the appeal at the request of the famously pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services for Obama.

The brief order noted that the court panel got a request from the Obama administration for the “voluntary dismissal” of an appeal of the lower court’s ruling against the abortifacient requirement, and the motion to dismiss was granted.

That, according to the ADF, means the preliminary injunction issued by a district court in November of last year will stand while the case, Tyndale House Publishers v. Sebelius, moves forward.

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