'These are not luxury items': Scotland set to make sanitary products free for women in world first

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Scotland is set to be the first country in the world to make sanitary products free to all women.

A consultation document proposed modelling the scheme on the card-based system for free condomsThe free sanitary products scheme is expected to cost $47.5 million

Scottish MPs backed plans on Tuesday to make products such as tampons and sanitary pads free at designated public places such as community centres, youth clubs and pharmacies.The Period Products Scotland Bill was proposed by Scottish MP Monica Lennon, who first submitted a draft proposal in 2017. The annual cost is expected to be around 24.1 million pounds ."They are indeed essential and no one in Scotland should have to go without period products.

"We are changing the culture and it's really exciting that other countries right around the world are watching very closely to see what we do." A consultation document proposed modelling the scheme on the card-based system for free condoms, where users register for a free card or voucher to exchange for the products.

Aileen Campbell, Scotland's communities secretary, said:"We will continue our world-leading action promoting wider period dignity through a certification scheme to encourage organisations to provide free products."

 

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Looking forward to the day Australia follow suit. It’s going to take many voices.

'Free' or working class funded?

Where's my free toilet paper?

shelleymlloyd Why don't they do the same here

Toilet paper and tissues aren't luxury items and they aren't free... Why do women get all the socialism?

The pure blood and the soil indigenous Scots making Scotland Scottish again after the evil of foreign white English colonisation since first contact about 700 years ago!

Femimists: we want equality! Not to be treated differently to men, but seen as equal. Also feminists: I need that because I'm a woman, so men should pay for it. This is why third wave Feminism and the feminists who support it are not taken seriously.

Condoms cost $2 a piece now I bet.

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