Government grant given to help vulnerable pregnant women: women’s groups outraged
from SPUC:
Abortion campaigners and other “women’s groups” have reacted with fury to the news that Life has been awarded a government grant for their work in helping vulnerable pregnant women.
The money comes from a fund created from the VAT levied on women’s sanitary products, known as the “Tampon tax”. Under pressure from campaigners after failing to honour a pledge to scrap the 5% VAT on sanitary products, former chancellor George Osborne said last year that more than £10m a year would be redistributed from the tax receipts to women’s charities.
Helping homeless and at-risk women
A spokeswoman from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said: “Life has been awarded £250,000 to fund a specific project in West London that will help homeless and other at risk women who are pregnant by providing housing, counselling and life skills training.” . The news caused an instant media storm, with headlines such as Outrage after tampon tax money is used to fund anti-abortion charity, and Tampon Tax VAT money given to anti-abortion Life charity in ‘scandal’.
Clare Murphy of BPAS said: “This is a tax on women’s periods being used to fund an organisation that is opposing women’s autonomy over their own bodies and pregnancies. They are not interested in women, they are interested in unborn babies, and giving priority to unborn babies over women’s needs is absolutely shocking.”
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