Dennis Prager Show - Free Menstrual Products Are a New Right
Aired: 2021-10-11
Duration: 04:09


=== California's Menstrual Equity Milestone (03:02) ===

[00:00:01]  Yeah, I remember once saying to my mother, America's a great place, Mom, but there's no menstrual equity here.
[00:00:13]  And my mother, God bless her, said, you're out of your mind, Dennis.
[00:00:18]  I never said it, actually.
[00:00:22]  Remember, there are infinite number of universes, so maybe in one of them I did say it.
[00:00:27]  It was introduced by...
[00:00:29]  Christina Garcia, Democrat.
[00:00:31]  That's a shocker.
[00:00:34]  Member of California State Assembly.
[00:00:36]  Signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom.
[00:00:39]  The law is the latest step toward menstrual equity in the nation's most populous state, which has a history of implementing laws that are later echoed in other parts of the country.
[00:00:51]  This year it also eliminated attacks on menstrual products.
[00:00:55]  Which Garcia said in a statement cost Californians more than $20 million annually.
[00:01:02]  Do you understand that?
[00:01:04]  There can't be a tax on menstrual products, but there can be on other products?
[00:01:10]  Free period products are already required in low-income schools.
[00:01:16]  Yep, that's what we needed.
[00:01:20]  There we go.
[00:01:22]  So of course the menstrual equity is that it will not only be in girls rooms or ladies rooms.
[00:01:33]  Starting with what words?
[00:01:37]  Okay, I just saw that.
[00:01:38]  Just as toilet paper and paper towels are provided in virtually every public bathroom, so should menstrual products, Garcia said in the statement.
[00:01:47]  It is time we recognize and respond to the biology.
[00:01:52]  Of half the population by prioritizing free access to menstrual products and eliminating all barriers to them.
[00:02:03]  I don't know what she's talking about.
[00:02:05]  She did say half, but it's more than half.
[00:02:08]  I don't know the answer.
[00:02:11]  You have to understand that much of what the left passes for laws is because there's really nothing, there are no more laws to pass.
[00:02:23]  The best legislators are followers of Calvin Coolidge who thought that he did nothing was the greatest compliment you could pay a politician.
[00:02:38]  They all feel they have to pass something.
[00:02:43]  Scotland last year became the first country to provide free period products nationally.

=== All Truth Comes from the Government (01:20) ===

[00:02:49]  What a great country.
[00:02:52]  That alone makes me want to visit Scotland again.
[00:02:56]  I've been there a couple of times.
[00:03:01]  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
[00:03:04]  Hey, Sean, you got Prime Minister Ardern's comment that all truth comes from the government?
[00:03:10]  You got that one?
[00:03:15]  Yeah, he'll get it, folks.
[00:03:17]  It's one of my favorite quotes of any prime minister in my radio career.
[00:03:23]  So she moved this year to provide free period products in schools across the country.
[00:03:28]  You can trust us as a source of that information.
[00:03:31]  You can also trust the Director General of Health and the Ministry of Health.
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[00:03:39]  Otherwise, dismiss anything else.
[00:03:42]  We will continue to be your single source of truth.
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[00:03:54]  And when you see those messages, remember that unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
[00:04:05]  One of the great lines, unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.