That was a good thing, it allowed the clinics to have funds cut off.
The key phrase is backed down. That implies that they changed their position from supporting the veto override to opposing it. That tells me they did it grudgingly and their heart wasn’t in it.
I'm ecstatic that someone had the gonads to tell it like it is and slam the leftists. When conservatives take a staunch stand, they do more than just cause a single obstruction to leftist nihilists; they cause other not-so-committed, timid "conservatives" to dare to take a stand with them. It's contagious, thank God!