Dating apps Bumble and Match offer relief to employees affected by Texas abortion law

Dating app companies that are led by women have become some of the first companies to speak out against the new law in Texas, which seeks to restricts abortion access.

The law restricts access to abortion to the first six weeks of pregnancy, a timeframe that critics say most women don’t know if they are pregnant. The law also introduces controversial measures where anyone can sue a provider over the suspicion it performed an illegal abortion, creating a potential deluge of lawsuits and vague language about exceptions for medical emergencies.

As law professor Steven Vladeck from the University of Texas told NPR:

…the law really does make abortion illegal in just about every single case starting with the six weeks of pregnancy. And, of course, that’s measured not from conception, not from when the woman knows she’s pregnant, but from when their last menstrual cycle took place. That has the effect of banning probably 85 to 90% of otherwise lawful, otherwise constitutionally protected abortions all across the nation’s second-largest state. And we know that most of the providers across the state have stopped providing such abortions as of this morning.