SEC says Eli Lil­ly can't avoid re­quests for more in­fo on di­ver­si­ty ef­forts, abor­tion stance

Eli Lil­ly must ad­dress pro­pos­als re­quest­ing re­ports on its di­ver­si­ty, eq­ui­ty and in­clu­sion progress, and its abor­tion poli­cies, the SEC de­ter­mined last week.

The news comes af­ter Eli Lil­ly an­nounced sev­er­al months ago that the com­pa­ny would “be forced to plan for more em­ploy­ment growth out­side of our home state” due to In­di­ana’s abor­tion ban, “one of the most re­stric­tive an­ti-abor­tion laws in the Unit­ed States.”

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