Alison Thewliss says proposals to scrutinise women who contain third child due to rape was stigmatising and has no place in the 21st centuryA Scottish MP has launched a poster campaign challenging the government’s “appalling” budget proposal that would require a woman who had a third child as the result of rape to justify her position to avoid losing tax credits.
Alison Thewliss,who has raised the issue nine times in the House of Commons, was joined by campaigners in Glasgow on Saturday to publicise the poster campaign and website, and calling on George Osborne to “scrap the rape clause”.
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Source: theguardian.com