A tampon tax is bad enough. Using it to fund anti-abortionists is a disgrace (The Guardian)

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2. And this is Britain, where products are available

In the late '80s, I went with my grandmother to the USSR as part of a peace group. I thought I'd brought enough supplies with me, but I gave some to a girl I met on the plane and I ran out. Yikes! That was a nightmare since there was nothing available in any stores, guess they deal with these things the way women did in this country a few generations ago.

I had to "make do" for a day or two until we flew back and had a stop over in Finland(!), and since I don't read Finnish, I had to look on the photos on the packages to figure out what was in them. Fortunately, I guessed right...

So I experienced what it's like to "do without" and I can't imagine how it must be like to suffer like that on a regular basis.