On New Year’s Eve, a federal judge in Texas has put a temporary halt to a federal regulation implementing anti-discrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act . Chris Geidner of Buzzfeed The Health and Human Services regulation “forbids discriminating on the basis of ‘gender identity’ and ‘termination of pregnancy'” under Obamacare, as US District Court Judge Reed O’Connor wrote in his opinion halting enforcement of those provisions in the rule.