Sugar Daddy Website Founder to Pay for Abortions of Women Who Need to Travel Out of Restrictive States (Independent UK)

Read the full article by Maya Oppenheim at Independent.Co.UK

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.

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.

Maya Oppenheim is The Independent’s Women’s Correspondent. She covers news, social policy and global stories from a women’s angle – with a particular focus on issues of domestic violence, sexual assault, gender-based violence, abortion, and period poverty.