Obamacare Executive Order Has Little Effect on Litigation

But that would be an agency decision, and wouldn’t have anything to do with the litigation, which is under the DOJ’s direction, Gretchen Borchelt, of the National Women’s Law Center in Washington, told Bloomberg BNA.

The executive order was “unclear” and introduced “confusion” and “uncertainty.” It didn’t, however, require the DOJ to change its position on the birth control benefit cases, she said. Borchelt is vice president for reproductive rights and health at the NWLC.