Sugar Daddy website founder to pay for abortions of women who need to travel out of restrictive states

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The founder of a sugar daddy website is offering to pay for out-of-state abortions for women seeking the procedure in states that have passed restrictions.

This comes as increasing numbers of states across America introduce bills that attempt to ban women from having abortions – with legislation to restrict abortion rights having been introduced in 16 states this year.

Brandon Wade, the founder and chief executive of popular sugar daddy website SeekingArrangement, is offering to cover the cost of both abortions and the travel expenses for women needing abortions in states that have introduced restrictions on the procedure.

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Mr Wade announced him and his girlfriend Zoe Glaze are launching a charity called Fight Against Poverty so that “when any state makes the decision to deny women the right to make choices about her body, we can help.”

“We will provide women and families who cannot afford to provide for themselves, travel out of their home state to access proper health care and to exercise their right to a choice,” he said in a video released on Tuesday.

Shape Created with Sketch. Northern Ireland abortion protest in Westminster Show all 7 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. Northern Ireland abortion protest in Westminster 1/7 Derry Girls cast members Siobhan McSweeney and Nicola Coughlan (right) join MPS and women impacted by Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws PA 2/7 Heidi Allen (second right) joins the protest PA 3/7 A luggage tag on a suitcase, symbolising the women who travel from Northern Ireland to England for terminations PA 4/7 The campaigners march across Westminster Bridge PA 5/7 Counter-protesters Rebecca Morgan (left) and her daughter Helen, one, demonstrate in favour of Northern Ireland's current laws Getty Images 6/7 Protesters supporting Northern Ireland's abortion laws at Parliament Square Getty Images 7/7 Demonstrators pull suitcases to symbolise the women who travel from Northern Ireland to England for a termination AFP/Getty Images 1/7 Derry Girls cast members Siobhan McSweeney and Nicola Coughlan (right) join MPS and women impacted by Northern Ireland's strict abortion laws PA 2/7 Heidi Allen (second right) joins the protest PA 3/7 A luggage tag on a suitcase, symbolising the women who travel from Northern Ireland to England for terminations PA 4/7 The campaigners march across Westminster Bridge PA 5/7 Counter-protesters Rebecca Morgan (left) and her daughter Helen, one, demonstrate in favour of Northern Ireland's current laws Getty Images 6/7 Protesters supporting Northern Ireland's abortion laws at Parliament Square Getty Images 7/7 Demonstrators pull suitcases to symbolise the women who travel from Northern Ireland to England for a termination AFP/Getty Images

He added: “If lawmakers will not step in and help these desperate women, then I will."

Mr Wade explained that his girlfriend grew up in Alabama - a state where a new law mandating a near total ban on abortion was signed into law by the governor last month. Under the law, doctors would face 10 years in prison for attempting to terminate a pregnancy and 99 years for carrying out the procedure.

The abortion ban, which has been branded a “death sentence for women”, would even criminalise performing abortions in cases of rape and incest. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey said the new law might be “unenforceable” due to Roe v Wade – the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion nationwide in 1973 – but said the new law was passed with the aim of challenging that decision.

“My girlfriend, Zoe, and her sister Camille, both from Gadsden, Alabama, wept that day. As did millions of other women worldwide,” Mr Wade said.

Mr Wade’s interest in setting up a charity started when he began to question why women from states with abortion bans could not just travel elsewhere. He said he rapidly discovered the answer “may have more to do with money than legislation.”

Alabama’s abortion law is “designed to hurt the weakest and the poorest amongst us”, he added.

Around 17 per cent of Alabama residents currently live below the poverty line. Mr Wade also drew attention to the fact Alabama does not require comprehensive sex education in schools and does not provide funding to family planning centres such as Planned Parenthood.

Mr Wade said he plans to donate between $500,000 and $1m to the charity initially and will take part in its fundraising. He said the charity ties in with SeekingArrangement’s goal of letting people make their own choices and improve their lives.

SeekingArrangement connects “sugar babies” to “sugar daddies or mommas” to find “mutually beneficial relationships,” according to its site, and has 10 million members.

The CEO’s announcement comes as anti-abortion campaigners wage war on abortion rights in the hope that Roe v Wade will be overturned or radically undermined with new conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh - both Trump appointees - sitting on the court.

The Supreme Court has previously ruled that states cannot ban abortion before a foetus is viable – about 23 to 25 weeks.

Georgia governor Brian Kemp signed the controversial “heartbeat” abortion bill into law last month – effectively banning the procedure and giving the southern state one of the most restrictive laws in the US.

The legislation bans abortion once cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo. This can be as early as six weeks – at which point most women do not yet know they are pregnant.

The bill imposes jail sentences for women found guilty of aborting or attempting to abort their pregnancies, with the potential for life imprisonment and the death penalty. It is not scheduled to come into effect until 1 January and is expected to face challenges in the courts – and potentially be postponed.

More than a dozen other states have passed or are considering versions of Georgia’s law. Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio have also approved bans on abortion once a foetal heartbeat is detected.

Opponents of abortion across America have become increasingly emboldened in their efforts to roll back women’s reproductive rights since Donald Trump entered the White House in January 2017.

ZiggoCiP on June 5th, 2019 at 23:29 UTC »

When I first heard about Sugar Daddy websites, I thought they were a joke.

Then a guy I work with who is 19 got on a Sugar Momma website, and linked up with a woman who, I shit you not, pays him. What for you may ask? Talking and video chats. No pornographic or stip stuff, just companionship.

And good money too, his first couple weeks she sent him nearly a grand. He's not a social genius or the most handsome guy in the world, she just sends him money to talk to her. Oh yeah, she lives in friggin Europe, and they'll never meet from what he says.

I still don't understand.

kitkat9000take5 on June 5th, 2019 at 22:30 UTC »

Ok, I can't believe that I've gone through 6 comment chains and have yet to see this referenced:

Mr Wade announced him and his girlfriend Zoe Glaze are launching a charity called Fight Against Poverty so that “when any state makes the decision to deny women the right to make choices about her body, we can help.”

Fight Against Poverty,

or F.A.P., as it were.

Seriously, I'm disappointed.

yamaha2000us on June 5th, 2019 at 19:00 UTC »

I read this as the founder impregnated women but now has to send them out of state for the abortion