[api] fix do not auto decline request with an embargo date

[adrianschroeter]

[eduardoj]

I rebased on master. This particular change needs to be tested in spec/models/bs_request_spec.rb.

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Merging #12564 (1420a98) into master (eea307e) will increase coverage by 0.24%. The diff coverage is n/a.

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