The courting platforms Bumble and Match Group, the corporate that owns Tinder, have teamed as much as create a reduction fund for Texas ladies searching for abortions after the state handed an insidious six-week ban on the process earlier this week.

Bumble—which relies in Austin, which means its personal staff can be topic to the ban—stated on Wednesday that the fund was created with the intention of “supporting the reproductive rights of women and people across the gender spectrum who seek abortions in Texas.”

“Bumble is women-founded and women-led, and from day one we’ve stood up for the most vulnerable,” the corporate stated in a press release on Twitter. “We’ll keep fighting against regressive laws like #SB8.”

SB8— the controversial laws signed into regulation by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in May—functionally overturns the right to an abortion in Texas as assured by Roe v. Wade, even in instances of rape or incest. In ensuring that the regulation could be nearly inconceivable for reproductive rights advocates to combat in court docket, lawmakers deployed a sneaky authorized maneuver by entrusting its enforcement to personal residents who’ve been given the facility to sue people they consider have had an unauthorized abortion in addition to anybody they consider aided the process—bypassing the clause in Roe that particularly forbids states, districts, or counties from implementing abortion bans.

In addition to Tinder, Match Group—which can also be headquartered in Texas—additionally owns Match.com, Plenty of Fish, OkCupid, and Hinge. CEO Shar Dubey stated that the fund can be a important useful resource for workers and their dependents within the occasion that they must journey exterior the state to acquire reproductive care.

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“The company generally does not take political stands unless it is relevant to our business. But in this instance, I personally, as a woman in Texas, could not keep silent,” Dubey stated in an inside memo obtained by Reuters. “Surely everyone should see the danger of this highly punitive and unfair law that doesn’t even make an exception for victims of rape or incest.”

Gestational age is measured from the date of a girl’s final interval, which means that she is usually already two weeks “pregnant” on the date of conception. Many ladies don’t notice that they’re pregnant till not less than six weeks—a incontrovertible fact that reproductive rights advocates have used to help their claims that the Texas regulation would successfully outlaw not less than 85% of the abortions sought within the state.