re: Legislature votes to address "Period Poverty"

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Can I get free toothpaste and toothbrushes? What about toilet paper? Shower gel? Deodorant?

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Apples to oranges here, unless you'd prefer women just bleed freely.

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What about all the other stuff? Or is your period equivalent to going to the bathroom?

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Yea, it kinda is.

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If anything, stopping a bleed while at school would seem better served by a trip to the nurse's office.

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Except you don't stop this kind of bleed

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Following the logic of your question, do you need more tampons than the ones you use at home?

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Possibly, women have to change their tampons & shite throughout the day.

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You can buy tampons from Walmart for less than 20 cents a piece. I simply will not accept that cost is too much for 40% of girls. If feminine products are not high up on their families' purchasing priorities, that's a different discussion.

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Not everyone comes from a good family.