TELL GOFUNDME THAT WOMEN WHO SEEK ABORTION CARE AREN’T JUST LIKE TERRORISTS AND CRIMINALS

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/get-involved/actions/gofundme.html

GoFundMe is a popular online fundraising site where you can raise money for personal projects or issues you care about. Lots of people use it to help pay for expensive medical emergencies. But GoFundMe just announced a new policy that restricts people from raising money to help pay for an abortion.

You know what else GoFundMe restricts raising money for? Terrorism, violence, and drugs. That's right, they consider abortion in the same category as terrorism and violence.

Abortion is standard medical care that one in three women needs. They don’t need stigma, shame, or judgment.

Sign our petition with our friends at UltraViolet to tell GoFundMe to take abortion off its list of banned content.


Tell GoFundMe Founders Brad Damphousse and Andy Ballester:

Women seeking abortion shouldn’t be categorized alongside terrorists and criminals. Abortion is safe, legal, and standard medical care accessed by one in three American women. Remove abortion from your list of banned fundraisers.

Sign the petition at the link at the top.

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Done. nt

[rpannier]

2. I wanted to ask why

Clicked, 'Ask a Question' and was taken to 'Frequently Asked Questions'
Tried the 'Help Center' and got same 'FAQ'
There is no place to contact them with any questions unless you are a donor, the press, etc

[freshwest]

10. The corporate technocracy doesn't need our opinion to operate. Just electricity and programming.

They've made plain by their policy what they do and don't support. This overrides the call for net neutrality as a freedom of speech issue.

Censorship is already in place by design and we keep on paying. This has been a costly adventure.

[DeadLetterOffice]

3. Done.

Thanks for the post.

[Gman]

4. It's probably a business decision

Abortion is a divisive issue. They alienate people on the anti side who won't use the service. In general, an Indy band or Volunteer fire department, for example, trying to raise money to record a CD or other projects likely won't shy away from this place because they won't run a campaign for someone getting an abortion. GFM is better than Kick Starter for many things. If they don't have to go there they won't.

[glowing]

5. And yet, they have allowed the fund for the cop who

killed Michael Brown to continue to exist and finacially out perform the funding toward Michael Brown's fund page.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. This times 1000000000

[Gman]

11. Excellent point

[JackInGreen]

6. We see plenty of companies endorsing the same 'business based' decision,

and we decry their actions just as much. 'It's business' is a poor excuse.

[YoungDemCA]

8. Business decisions don't exist in a vacuum

They aren't isolated from social/cultural prejudice or bias on the part of those who run the businesses.

[bullwinkle428]

9. Just like whites-only lunch counters in the South 50 years ago.

That was a "business decision" as well; just ask Rand Paul.

[justhanginon]

12. Done. n/t