{"id":48626,"date":"2022-05-13T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=48626"},"modified":"2022-05-16T18:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T17:38:45","slug":"taboo-around-menstrual-pain-lifted-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/taboo-around-menstrual-pain-lifted-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Taboo around menstrual pain lifted in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A huge step in acknowledging women&#8217;s pain and health is being made in Spain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> During mental health week, Spain made a huge step in recognizing menstrual cycles as a proper health issue. The EU country could become the first in establishing up to five days of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/spain-to-ease-abortion-limits-for-over-16s-and-allow-menstrual-leave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/12\/spain-to-ease-abortion-limits-for-over-16s-and-allow-menstrual-leave\">menstrual leave<\/a> a month. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c1ngela Rodr\u00edguez, the secretary of state for equality said: \u201cIt\u2019s important to be clear about what a painful period is \u2013 we\u2019re not talking about slight discomfort, but about serious symptoms such as diarrhoea, fever and bad headaches.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another historical win for women in the country would be the new law allowing women over the age of 16 to have abortions without permission from a parent or a guardian. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law will be approved next week in the Spanish cabinet. The bill will repeal a 2015 law passed by the conservative party that required women under the age of 17 to acquire parental authorisation for abortions. The present three-day period of introspection for people seeking a termination would also be eliminated. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other parts of the law include eliminating the VAT on menstruation products and allowing women with seriously injuring periods between three and five days of leave each month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words: Elitsa Maymareva | Subbing: Ashreya Jimi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured image from <a href=\"https:\/\/undraw.co\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/undraw.co\/search\">Undraw<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge step in acknowledging women&#8217;s pain and health is being made in Spain. During mental health week, Spain made a huge step in recognizing menstrual cycles as a proper health issue. The EU country&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":48629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48661,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48626\/revisions\/48661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}