Popular dating app Bumble is financing free screenings of Hillary Clinton’s documentary ahead of the election, following local women in their lawsuit against the state after its reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Breitbart News reports:
The dating and hookup app Bumble, which enables women to facilitate random sexual encounters with strangers, is financing free screenings around the country of Hillary Clinton’s pro-abortion documentary, with the screenings set to occur ahead of November’s presidential election.
Abortion has been at the focal point of the 2024 presidential campaign, and was one of the few issues brought up repeatedly throughout August’s Democratic National Convention with a unified and defined position expressed among center stage speakers.
Political commentators have speculated that the Trump campaign believes a more moderate approach to abortion will win him over a large share of independents and could also pull a number of disengaged Democrats his way, and as a result he’s trying to distance himself from some of the staunch pro-life activists in his party that ultimately want abortion banned in all 50 states without exception. He’s gone on record saying that he would veto a national abortion ban if it came to his desk.
Breitbart News continues:
Bumble is financing the rollout of Zurawski v Texas, which will open in Austin on September 24 before a series of free screenings at Alamo Drafthouse theaters around the country on September 25, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter.
Zurawski v Texas follows a group of women who sue the state of Texas following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. As Breitbart News reported, one of the women was Amanda Zurawski — whose story was used by Joe Biden reelection campaign.
This isn’t Bumble’s first foray into current events.
After Texas passed a heartbeat bill in 2021, Bumble began donating to funds set up to assist women traveling outside of the state to get abortions.
In 2018, Bumble took out a full-page “Believe Women” advertisement in the Wall Street Journal following Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s hearing before the Senate. The advertisement simply read, “Believe Women,” along with Bumble’s logo, while the company added, “We believe you” in a statement.
The same year, the company also banned users from uploading or featuring images with guns to their profiles, stating “as mass shootings continue to devastate communities around the world, we aren’t willing to showcase guns on our platform. Guns simply don’t align with our values of kindness, respect, equality and empowerment.” Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd told Time Magazine, “We want women — and men — to feel comfortable, to feel safe and feel secure. Weapons don’t send that message.”
Bumble isn’t the only dating app to get involved in politics.
Tinder created “bans off our bodies” shirts that they debuted at New York Fashion Week earlier this month.
In an interview with Teen Vogue, Tinder’s Chief Marketing Officer Melissa Hobley said, “The designers were like, ‘This just feels so right,’ and they were so up for it. We’re really passionate about reproductive freedom. We’re being louder about that than we’ve ever been.”
Match.com also created a fund for their employees to travel to get abortions.
