Breed Rights Groups asks Trump officials to save birth control reserves in Belgium
More than 70 breeding groups are asking the Trump administration to stop the planned destruction of nearly $ 10 million usable birth control products.
Planned Parentshood is leading the most recent charge to save contraceptions and sent a letter to the Secretary of State Secretary Marco Rubio with 77 77 co-signators on Friday.
In the letter, the parties wrote that they oppose the “cruel and waste” decision “strongly” with the administration’s “sight” to burning the products.
“These supplies are safe, effective and wanted,” the letter is written.
The United States International Development Organization (USAID) bought $ 9.7 million dollars for birth control pills, hormone implants, shots and intimate devices to distribute to low -income countries before the Trump administration agency broke this year.
Since the Trump administration reduced all support for the International Family Planning Program, this reserve has been in a warehouse in Belgium for months.
Since then, some health agencies have tried to buy supplies as they are still usable and are not ready to expire until at least 2027. However, the Trump administration has rejected multiple offers and has promised to spend $ 167,000 to burning products at a medical waste facility in France.
Trump officials said supplies were supposed to be destroyed in July in the summer, but it is not clear when this happens.
The state department did not immediately respond to any request to comment from the hill.
A spokesman for the State Department told Hill in August that the company made the initial decision to destroy abortions in supplies, though multiple non -profit and sources say that there is nothing that can induce abortion in the stock.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that supplies were destroyed, but Belgium officials say supplies have not yet burned, but USAID has withdrawn his statement.
The letter states that the supply of most birth control means going to women and girls in five African countries, including “Disabled to escape or take care of the dispute.”
“At the moment, women and girls around the world are desperately looking for contraceptions and are facing the empty shelves,” the letter is written. “Meanwhile, this administration is choosing to spend the dollars of taxpayers to destroy effective health and treatment supplies that are needed and necessary and it can save life and convert it.”
Some non -profit assumes that the products shine can leave without access to 1.4 million women and girls’ life -saving care across Africa.
The letter added, “It’s not too late to do the right thing.” “The administration must turn off the plan to destroy these contraceptive supplies.
