A federal judge has denied the Obama administration’s request to suspend his ruling ordering the government to make emergency contraception available to people of all ages without a prescription. The administration had requested a stay on the ruling while it appeals. On Friday, Judge Edward Korman denounced the appeal as “frivolous,” “taken for the purpose of delay,” and “largely an insult to the intelligence of women.” Korman also criticized what he called the “bad-faith, politically motivated” actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who overruled FDA regulators in 2011 to prevent the drug from being sold without a prescription to women under 17. The FDA now says it will make one specific emergency contraceptive pill — “Plan B One Step” — available over the counter to women 15 and older. In his ruling, Korman called the move a “boon” to its manufacturer that “did little to eliminate the practical obstructions” to obtaining the “morning-after pill” for women of any age.