In my family, if you had a problem, complaining wouldn't get you very far. You had a choice: accept it, or do something about it. Bike chain broke? Fix it or walk. Too much homework? Bear down and work through it or get a bad grade. That's how it went.
Well, it seems my house wasn't the only one with that rule, and one entrepreneur has decided that instead of complaining about something, he's going to take action.
Opposition to those laws has started taking form, including measures like boycotts of those states and calls for companies to stop doing business in or with those states.
Studios get a pretty hefty tax credit working in the state. Movies like Avengers: Endgame have been shot there.
It's the harshest anti-abortion measure signed into law in the U.S. at the moment, outlawing abortions even in cases of rape and incest, with doctors who perform abortions facing up to 99 years in prison. Outcry from the pro-choice crowd was immediate and fierce after Alabama governor Kay Ivey signed that bill.
Brandon Wade, who founded the sugar daddy website SeekingArrangement, announced that he and his girlfriend, Zoe Glaze, are setting up a charity to help women in states with restrictive abortion laws. Called 'Fight Against Poverty', the charity will pay for travel expenses and the cost of an abortion for women who need to leave their state to legally get an abortion.
It's definitely a non-traditional dating and relationship website, and while it does get criticized as glorified prostitution, SeekingArrangement seems to work for some people, and it boasts more than 10 million members. And now, Wade wants to come to an arrangement to help women in need.
Zoe hails from Alabama, and Wade said that when she heard the news about the new abortion law, she wept.
But Zoe explained to him that for many, many women there, that simply wasn't a financial option for them.
And it probably doesn't help that, as Wade notes, Alabama does not require sex ed to be taught in schools and provides little funding for family planning at places like Planned Parenthood.
"If lawmakers will not step in and help these desperate women, I will. Although Alabama's law has yet to take effect, I'm working proactively with Zoe to launch the charity 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."
Wade plans to start the charity off with a donation of between $500,000 and $1 million of his own money, and will help personally with the fundraising.
Watch Wade's announcement below.
h/t: The Independent
