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Scottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone says the 'rape clause' asks women to prove the child they are claiming on behalf of is raped.

Ms Johnstone says this is "completely unacceptable".

She says Scottish Women's Aid and Rape Crisis Scotland cannot and will not collude as the third party on behalf of the DWP and the RCN says they have not been consulted.

Ms Johnstone says the 'rape clause' is abhorrent.

Green MSP Alison Johnstone says she is dismayed such a debate is necessary. 

Ms Johnstone says we are some way away from gender equality before this is "inflicted on us". 

The Green MSP says this policy takes no account of the fact that family circumstances change and many cannot work. 

"It fundamentally distorts our means-tested social security system," she says. 

Ms Johnstone says needs will not simply disappear because Westminster has legislated. 

Ms Dugdale says the woman who wrote to her said the need to protect her children from the truth came above all other consideration.

She says quotes the women who said she would "not complete that awful form of shame".

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale says not one of the Scottish Tories will speak against this and that is "just wrong". 

Ms Dugdale says "there is nothing fluffy about David Mundell" and that he has "the brass-neck" to accuse those against the rape clause of "playing politics. 

The Scottish Labour leader refers to a letter she received from a woman who was raped by one of her friends, fell pregnant and had a child.

Ms Dugdale says the woman say she was prepared for speculation about the father and difficulties with her husband's family.

She says the woman was not prepared for the stigma attached to her existing three children or the thoughts of suicide. 

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Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale asks why rape victims must pay for the deficit while giving  tax cuts to the richest people in our society.

Ms Dugdale says women face the choice of either admitting they have been raped or go without.

She says the 'rape clause' is "utterly horrific and abhorrent".

Amendments selected for the debate from Labour and the Greens leave Ms Sturgeon's motion largely unchanged, and add in further criticism of the policy.

Labour's Kezia Dugdale said parliament should "condemn any government that forces women to relive a horrific event in their lives to access social security" and support third-sector and healthcare organisations refusing to act as assessors.

Green MSP Alison Johnstone put forward an amendment calling the changes "ethically unjustifiable" and "yet another welfare cut that the UK government knows will hit women hardest".

Lib Dem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton also put forward an amendment adding in "strong and widespread opposition to this damaging policy", but it was not selected for the debate.

Ms Davidson says powers over welfare were requested so that the Scottish government can make different choices.

The Scottish Tory leader says she does not believe that there are any in the chamber that think that this exemption should not exist.

Ms Davidson says she thinks the system should be monitored on the ground and if Ms Sturgeon is using words like "shameful" and does not act then that is what is truly "shameful". 

Ms Davidson asks the chamber to examine welfare reform in the round, with record employment for the disabled and women. 

The Scottish Conservative leader says income inquality has also fallen.