Theresa May is being urged to scrap the ‘rape clause’ and stand up for ‘vulnerable women’ in the Government’s planned benefit changes.
In a letter written by Glasgow MP Alison Thewliss, the Prime Minister is asked to “do the right thing” and get rid of the clause that insists women who have a third child due to rape justify it to the Department of Work and Pensions.
The decision to include the ‘rape clause’ was taken by George Osbourne last year, along with the previous Government's plans to restrict tax credit payments to two children per family.
I've called on Theresa May to act now and scrap the #rapeclause https://t.co/tZG5WC2C6d pic.twitter.com/hVpnSGkb1g
— Alison Thewliss (@alisonthewliss) September 13, 2016
According to the Daily Record, Alison Thewliss highlighted how Theresa May “is obviously not afraid to do things differently from David Cameron.”
“Given that she’s had the courage to do this and to review some of the previous Government’s key policy commitments, I am today calling upon her to scrap a very real and serious policy which is still frightening vulnerable women and welfare charities all over the UK.”
“It’s about this Prime Minister standing up for other women, doing the decent thing and getting shot of this wicked policy agenda”.
