Pamela T Munyoro
Scotland (News of The South) – Scotland has become the first country in the whole world to allow free and universal access to menstrual products, pads and tampons with no charge.
The Scottish Parliament voted unanimously in favour of the Period Products bill on Tuesday, months after lawmakers had initially signaled their support towards this movement.
Period products will be available to access in public buildings including schools and universities across Scotland.
According to the new rules, it will be up to local authorities and education providers to ensure the products are available free of charge to anyone who needs them.
The campaign has been backed by a wide coalition, including trades unions, women’s organisations and charities. Monica Lennon, the lawmaker who introduced the bill last year, said ahead of the vote,
“Scotland will not be the last country to make period poverty history.”
In this case, Scotland has set the record straight up in ending sanitary poverty amongst the Scottish young girls and women and they have shown how possible it can be for women to access period products for free without worrying much about how you will get them.
This is a great signal to the world that free universal access to period products can be achieved, as it is not by choice to be on your period every month but it is something that is very inevitable and women can not change it.
After this new development from the Scottish people, we hope to see more developments from different countries following suit in freeing women on how they will purchase their period products.
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