This has been getting out of hand for some time. This is past out of hand. I read this from a Canadian friend of mine and I am outraged. I am embarrased and think some of these GOPers are indeed a terrorist based bunch.
During a hearing last week over whether incarcerated Mainers should be guaranteed access to basic menstrual hygiene products, Republican state Rep. Richard Pickett of Dixfield cautioned that such a rule might make the prison system seem too much like a “country club.”
On Friday, members of the legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted 6-4 to advance LD 628, which would ensure comprehensive access to menstrual products in all of Maine’s correctional and detention facilities.
In 2017, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that free menstrual products would be guaranteed for all women, transgender and nonbinary people. However, there is no such policy for state prisons and county jails, which house the majority of incarcerated people
What is wrong with these people? Just the thought of blood dripping all over which is a health issue and the humiliation these women would have felt is overwhelming. A stain sent most of we women through hell. I know people who don’t have money to buy pads, and Tampax...There were times in my life I did not. I had to use rags and socks and scratchy torn up rags that gave me infections and changed every hour or so as blood would not slide down your leg as pain ripped through your body. I was a working single Mother and you did what you could till you could get your hands on 3 or 4 dollars to buy these essentials. The same thing is true today for many women who have weak bladders and can’t afford Depends.
This is supposed to be the United States of America. What in the world have we become? Women..do not take this mindset from these nutcases. Let’s just stop this here and now. They actually have Menustration huts in parts of the world. Is this what we are becoming? Seriously? Of course Fox news carried the story but was reporting on this Pickett dude with no commentary from what I read (figures) . www.foxnews.com/...
The bill was voted against by the old nutcase but 4 joined in to denying women basic hygiene products.
Men, please stand up with us. Please speak out. We need your voices ever present now more than ever. Men of Maine...Get that nut out of office. Maybe he needs to be shown the movie Carrie a few times. The truth is...Only women bleed. What does that tell you? This is all about hurting women.