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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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To: cpdiii
The pads are excellent for cleaning my rifles and handguns. They really are.

How have I not heard this already? Is it for the bore cleaning solution or for the excess oil as well?

21 posted on 11/24/2020 3:04:20 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Shouldn’t clean-shaven men get free shaving supplies to deal with the hair that sprouts from their faces?


22 posted on 11/24/2020 3:05:06 PM PST by Kipp
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To: ConservativeStatement

How utterly silly.

And my ancestors come from there.

It’s apparent it was all the men that produce sons with balls.


23 posted on 11/24/2020 3:05:45 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Meatspace

I remember at 12 years old riding my bicycle to Lucky’s supermarket to buy Kotex for my mother.

Fortunately, I don’t embarrass easily.


24 posted on 11/24/2020 3:07:27 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (We flattened the heck out of that curve, didn’t we?)
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To: Meatspace

“Buying tampons has been a constant in my life.”

I’ve done it a couple of times, but a lifetime of it?

That sucks.


25 posted on 11/24/2020 3:08:15 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Are those producing these sanitary products going to work for free?

If not, somebody’s gotta pay them. Guess who it will be...


26 posted on 11/24/2020 3:08:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: ConservativeStatement

Scotland is not a country. It’s part of the United Kingdom albeit they have their own parliament.


27 posted on 11/24/2020 3:09:17 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: cpdiii

“The pads are excellent for cleaning my rifles and handguns. They really are.”

How does one discover that?


28 posted on 11/24/2020 3:09:29 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: OpusatFR

“Those who cannot afford Cottonelle and are stuck with tissue thin generic?”

Cottonelle is the only TP. Everything else is snot rags.


29 posted on 11/24/2020 3:10:36 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: OpusatFR

"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!"


Yes, and everyone should have free and equal access to the top-shelf brands (like this one), too!


       

30 posted on 11/24/2020 3:10:41 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: ConservativeStatement

They aren’t free. A government can’t give something away unless they first took it from someone else.


31 posted on 11/24/2020 3:10:44 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: ConservativeStatement

You get a free tampon and you get a free tampon and you get a free.................


32 posted on 11/24/2020 3:16:57 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Normal females around 15-40 keep plenty of those ‘products’ on hand...

Its been a few years but I dont think I ever ran out and never lacked the so called ‘access’...

I carried them with me when the first day was nigh...

and had them stashed in my car and at the office...


33 posted on 11/24/2020 3:19:26 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: ConservativeStatement
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.

I think Beer and Whiskey should be free. END THIRST POVERTY NOW!!

ML/NJ

34 posted on 11/24/2020 3:19:42 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: lepton

I knew a guy who used them as an oil filter on his commercial fishing boat, a converted landing craft.


35 posted on 11/24/2020 3:19:53 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: ConservativeStatement

Period Poverty flyers are all over US campuses. They manage to have an anti-American tilt because they cite puritanical resistance to even discussing the subject. Yet when the Soviet Union put the first woman in space and 20 years later when they had the first woman space walk, Soviet women on the ground had no feminine hygiene products. They made their own and washed and reused them.


36 posted on 11/24/2020 3:20:15 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini. )
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To: ConservativeStatement

Thinking on this . . .

Don’t pregnant women stop having periods?

Is there another solution?


37 posted on 11/24/2020 3:21:29 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“free”


38 posted on 11/24/2020 3:24:40 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: ConservativeStatement

Stop worshiping genitalia.

I am starting to understand some of the Scottish stereotypes


39 posted on 11/24/2020 3:42:51 PM PST by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian )
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To: Meatspace

Oh my gosh yes! Commercials for Sanitary Products are now showing “bloody” messes! Couldn’t believe they’ve gone that far but they have!


40 posted on 11/24/2020 3:46:19 PM PST by caww ( )
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