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Tackling ‘Period Poverty,’ Scotland Is 1st Nation to Make Sanitary Products Free
New York Times ^ | Nov. 24, 2020 | Megan Specia

Posted on 11/24/2020 2:41:35 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

LONDON — Scotland has become the first country in the world to make period products freely available to all who need them, after final approval was given to a landmark piece of legislation in Parliament on Tuesday.

The measures are intended to end “period poverty” — or the circumstances, and in some cases, prohibitive expense that have left many without access to sanitary products when they need them.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: periods; sanitary; scotland; socialism; uk
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"In these dark times, we can bring light and hope to the world this evening.”

Just imagine the bumper stickers.

1 posted on 11/24/2020 2:41:35 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

It’s all a bloody socialist mess.


2 posted on 11/24/2020 2:43:59 PM PST by Meatspace
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Everyone, men included, are going to ask for them for free, driving the price way up, the subsidized cost is going to get too high for the government, and then people are going to be buying and selling them on the secondary market.
3 posted on 11/24/2020 2:44:08 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Neat. They make wonderful fire starters. The gel kinds have other usages.


4 posted on 11/24/2020 2:47:20 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ConservativeStatement

so stupid

gynosociety already is geared in so many ways to give women things


5 posted on 11/24/2020 2:48:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

like they already do with all the other stuff bought on free ebt funds

like diapers

like formula


6 posted on 11/24/2020 2:49:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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“Everyone, men included, are going to ask for them for free, ”

As a man, I have purchased many of tampons.

High school girlfriends, college girlfriends, other girlfriends, wife, daughter, etc, etc. Buying tampons has been a constant in my life.


7 posted on 11/24/2020 2:49:33 PM PST by Meatspace
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To: ConservativeStatement

We live in Bizarro World.


8 posted on 11/24/2020 2:50:32 PM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The world has gone mad.


9 posted on 11/24/2020 2:51:29 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Did ya hear that, MacTavich?
Hooray for Scotland.
Let the Church Bells ring!!”


10 posted on 11/24/2020 2:52:17 PM PST by lee martell
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To: ConservativeStatement

What’s under your kilt?


11 posted on 11/24/2020 2:52:18 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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fine

get a hysterectomy

give up your iphone subscription and all thenshoes and makeup and clothing and jewelry, then plead poverty/too expensive

its called prioritizing

or get a box of shop towels, and use and wash them. cloth diapers work, the liquid volumes in question easily handled


12 posted on 11/24/2020 2:53:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

I can think of two things that aren’t anymore...


13 posted on 11/24/2020 2:53:08 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: T.B. Yoits

I am a straight heterosexual male and I want them also. The pads are excellent for cleaning my rifles and handguns. They really are.


14 posted on 11/24/2020 2:55:37 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughhneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, old man, CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sanitary products like soap, cleaners, and toilet paper?


15 posted on 11/24/2020 2:59:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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Toilet paper should be free. I can’t think of anyone (other than the usual suspects) who does not use this vital commodity.

What about the people who can’t afford T-paper? Those who cannot afford Cottonelle and are stuck with tissue thin generic?

Potty paper parity NOW!


16 posted on 11/24/2020 2:59:59 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Secret Agent Man

And yet they still get cheaper drinks on “ladies’ night”


17 posted on 11/24/2020 3:00:35 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Bloody good story


18 posted on 11/24/2020 3:02:36 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: Meatspace

Wasn’t that something Al Bundy used to complain about in “Married with Children?”


19 posted on 11/24/2020 3:02:36 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (We must FIGHT, I repeat it sir, we must FIGHT! -Patrick Henry)
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To: Meatspace

Me: I’m going on a beer run.

Kay: I need some cigs—and plugs!

Me, to myself: Crap... (Brings half the fun to a screeching halt!)


20 posted on 11/24/2020 3:03:51 PM PST by W. (And now, more music, and Les Nessman!)
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