DC Government Delays Vote on Bill Mandating Abortion Coverage

Christian Post ^ | December 3, 2014| | Michael Gryboski

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A Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive box is seen in New York, April 5, 2013. A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make "morning-after" emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age.

The District of Columbia has delayed a vote on a bill mandating all businesses cover abortion in their insurance programs regardless of the business owner's moral objections.

In a decision made on Tuesday afternoon, the Council of the District of Columbia pulled the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act of 2014 off the agenda.

Months after the D.C.-based U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that closely-held businesses were exempt from the federal government's birth control mandate, the D.C. Council had on their agenda a bill that undermined this exemption.

Casey Mattox, an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom who attended the Tuesday D.C. Council meeting, said in a statement that the Council's delay was "the right thing to do."

"The council seems to have heard the voices warning them not to waste D.C. taxpayer dollars promoting the abortion lobby's interests," said Mattox.