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Balancing Act: Tampons and pads are just as essential as toilet paper. Let's work to end period poverty. Now!

Some day, across this great land, we will treat tampons and sanitary pads the way we do toilet paper.

Cashiers won't feel the need to obscure them in double or triple bags to save the purchaser certain humiliation. Public bathrooms will provide them in every stall, free of cost, understanding that, like toilet paper, they are a necessity. Shoppers of any age or gender will

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