By Chris Menahan | InformationLiberation
The socialist Scottish Labour Party on Tuesday claimed to have “made history” with the passage of a bill forcing taxpayers to pay for “free” sanitary products for women and girls.
“Tonight, we have made history,” Scottish Labour said on Twitter. “Scotland will be the first country in the world to make access to free period products a legal right.”
Tonight, we have made history.
Scotland will be the first country in the world to make access to free period products a legal right. pic.twitter.com/WGOQeiip0l
— Scottish Labour (@scottishlabour) November 24, 2020
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hailed the unanimous passage of the “groundbreaking legislation.”
Proud to vote for this groundbreaking legislation, making Scotland the first country in the world to provide free period products for all who need them. An important policy for women and girls. Well done to @MonicaLennon7 @ClydesdAileen and all who worked to make it happen https://t.co/4lckZ4ZYIY
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) November 24, 2020
Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who campaigned for the handouts over the past three years, cried after the bill was passed.
Held it together before today’s debate *until* I saw this video. I visited my local college @SLCek in 2016 and they committed to #freeperiodproducts across campus. Rose became a valued member of @CPGWomensHealth. Proud to credit them in my speech tonight. https://t.co/IwdmZ38HM5 https://t.co/oTKa4sqgrv pic.twitter.com/mVT3pOZsUZ
— Monica Lennon (@MonicaLennon7) November 24, 2020
Lennon hailed the bill as “world-leading legislation.”
Scotland won’t be the last country to consign period poverty to history – but we are the first. Well done @MonicaLennon7 #perioddignity #worldfirst #periodproducts pic.twitter.com/4Er2vun6HJ
— Scottish Labour (@scottishlabour) November 24, 2020
Lennon retweeted a post praising how “we’ve come so far” in the “struggle” against “period poverty.”
The Bill is passed!!!!
From #GetABloodyEducation to Free for All, Period – we’ve come so far and are so glad to be a part of the movement. Here’s to Scotland being WORLD LEADERS in the struggle against period poverty ???#FreePeriodProducts
how it started how it’s going pic.twitter.com/5glMg83LmE
— Sanitree (@Sani_tree) November 24, 2020
Forcing taxpayers to pay for their period products is the new “civil rights” for AWFLs.
What a talent!
This is great @JamieMaxArt #freeperiodproducts ??????? https://t.co/qp7FavgbWf— Monica Lennon (@MonicaLennon7) November 24, 2020
Lennon also retweeted Chelsea Clinton heaping praise on the bill.
Great news!!!! Scotland is making tampons and pads free ??????? https://t.co/uGMkX8DRpS
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) November 24, 2020
The cost of sanitary products in the UK is around $80 a year at most.
Who exactly was this driving into poverty?
According to a 2016 report from the NHS, women in their taxpayer-funded health care system overall have “14% higher expected lifetime hospital costs than men, largely due to the increased costs associated with the reproductive years, but also due to their longer life expectancy.”
“Average lifetime costs for men ranged from £43,358 for the most affluent group to £50,163 for the most deprived, and the respective costs for women ranged from £48,409 to £59,255,” the report stated.
“Equality” would entail bringing those numbers closer together, not pushing them farther apart.
To give you an idea of how zany Scotland has become, Humza Yousaf of the Scottish Nationalist Party recently introduced a bill to arrest Scots for “hate speech” based off their dinner table conversations.
The “Scottish Nationalist” earlier this year gave a speech in Parliament lamenting how the 96 percent White country his family moved to has too many White people in positions of leadership.
White people are oppressing Yousaf by existing and men are oppressing women by not paying for their period products.
According to leftoids, these are the “civil rights” struggles of our time!
W T F !! So why not prostate medication for men? I didn’t realize the Scotts were so idiotic! I may have to change my claim to heritage!