From ADF: Obama Administration Retreats on Abortion Pill Mandate
According to a press release from Alliance Defending Freedom, a federal appellate court has dropped an appeal by the Obama administration at the administration’s own request.
The appeal was in response to a preliminary injunction issued against the administration’s contraception mandate as it applies to Bible-publishing company Tyndale House. Under Obamacare’s rules and regulations, Tyndale must provide its employees with health insurance that covers contraception and abortion-inducing drugs; the company does not qualify for a religious exemption under Obamacare.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Tyndale House Publishers say the administration is apparently nervous about trying to defend its position that a Bible publisher is not religious enough for a religious exemption to the mandate.
This marks another major victory in the legal battles over rights of conscience.
An Overview of the 2013 Arkansas Legislative Session: Part 2
Yesterday, we posted a brief overview of the legislative session as a whole. Today we’d like to go into further detail about how our issues fared, and to accomplish this we’ve published a free e-book in PDF for you to download. This e-book covers a vast majority of our activity during the session. Click here to check it out!
Tomorrow in part three of our series, we’ll highlight our legislative battle against SJR16—a constitutional amendment that the Arkansas Legislature referred to the 2014 general election ballot.