Scotland Becomes The World’s First Country To Make Pads And Tampons Free
#Socialites, get into this! Scotland has become the world’s first country to make menstrual products free!
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Scotland will now be providing free and universal access to sanitary products for women of all age groups, after the Scottish Parliament unanimously passed legislation on Tuesday. As The Guardian reports, Under the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act, the Scottish government will be required to set up a nationwide program to allow anyone who needs period products to get them free of charge.
Further, it will also require schools, colleges, and universities to make a range of menstrual products available for free. Per CNN, the bill’s financial memorandum estimates it could cost around 8.7 million a year by 2022, depending on the number of women who will take advantage of the free products.
As CBS News notes, the bill was first introduced by Member of the Scottish Parliament Monica Lennon in April 2019. After the bill passed on Tuesday, she tweeted that it was “about bloody time.”
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