{"id":12779,"date":"2017-10-28T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/28\/anti-abortion-life-charity-will-get-cash-from-uk-tampon-tax\/"},"modified":"2017-10-28T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:35:47","slug":"anti-abortion-life-charity-will-get-cash-from-uk-tampon-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12779","title":{"rendered":"Anti-abortion Life charity will get cash from UK tampon tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government confirms group will receive \u00a3250,000 despite outcry from MPs and women\u2019s groupsThe government has confirmed that it is to award a quarter of a million pounds from an unpopular levy on women\u2019s sanitary products to an anti-abortion organisation, despite objections from women\u2019s groups and MPs.There was a outcry earlier this year after the Observer revealed that \u00a3250,000 of the money raised from the so-called tampon tax \u2013 the 5% rate of VAT that is levied on sanitary products \u2013would go to Life, a charity that campaigns against abortion. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/oct\/28\/anti-abortion-life-charity-will-get--tampon-tax-funds\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-abortion Life charity will get cash from UK tampon tax<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government confirms group will receive \u00a3250,000 despite outcry from MPs and women\u2019s groupsThe government has confirmed that it is to award a quarter of a million pounds from an unpopular levy on women\u2019s sanitary products to an anti-abortion organisation, despite objections from women\u2019s groups and MPs.There was a outcry earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}