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(SRN NEWS) – A growing number of companies are opting not to participate in the Human Rights Campaign’s annual LGBT scorecard.  The Corporate Equality Index ranks firms on how committed they are to the LGBT agenda, but lately there’s been resistance from parents and citizens groups.  Bud Light was boycotted after it teamed up with a transgender influencer and Target has been censured for allowing men to use the women’s bathrooms and dressing rooms in its stores.  Ford, Harley-Davidson and Lowe’s have all quit the Corporate Equality Index.

Nevada has decided not to appeal a judge’s ruling from earlier this year that ordered the state to use its Medicaid funds to pay for abortions for poor women.  Until now, it has only paid to end pregnancies resulting from rape or incest — or that were necessary to save the life of the mother.  Meanwhile, voters in Nevada are set to consider a measure that would enshrine abortion in the state constitution on Election Day in November.  If that amendment passes, however, it will have to be voted on a second time in 2026.

For a second time this year, Republicans in Congress have blocked legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization.  GOP lawmakers argue that the bill is an election-year stunt by Democrats.  IVF is controversial in pro-life circles because the process involves the generation of multiple embryos, some of which are destroyed.  The Democrats’ measure would have established a nationwide right for patients to access IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies, and a right for doctors and insurance companies to provide it.

Fewer young people are identifying as nonbinary on their applications to college for this fall.  That is according to an analysis of more than one million students who applied through the Common App to over 1,000 schools.  For the most recent admissions cycle, 1.8 percent of students chose a nonbinary gender term to describe themselves, down from 2.2 percent.  Experts say this is a huge change from the past few years, when the number of students indicating that they were nonbinary had skyrocketed.  Other data shows a similar trend.

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