Donald Trump’s administration has announced that it will destroy contraceptives stocked in Europe that would be sent to crisis zones and refugee camps as part of foreign aid funded by US taxpayers.
In a statement to NPR broadcaster, the State Department reported that the United States will spend about $ 167 to destroy some contraceptive stocks on a French facility that deals with medical waste. “Only a limited number of products has been approved for disposal,” said the folder.
Products in this stock include contraceptive pills and implantable contraceptive methods used to avoid pregnancy.
In the declaration to NPRthe State Department said these items are “abortive contraceptives”, so the measure would be necessary.
According to a report from Guardianof July 18, these products would be stored in Geel, Belgium. The Belgian government said it appealed to the US embassy in Brussels hoping to protect them, but failed to do so.
The contraceptive methods were acquired during the management of Democrat Joe Biden through contracts by the USAID agency, dismantled by Donald Trump’s current administration. These items would be distributed to women in low -income countries, especially in sub -Saharan Africa.
The republican government measure is based on a guideline established by former President Ronald Reagan in 1984 that Trump restored at the beginning of his second term. The “Mexico City Policy” restricts foreign non -governmental organizations to use US federal funds to provide abortion services.
The decision of the US government has generated criticism of leftist legislators in France, the destination of incineration items. Several parliamentarians signed an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, pressuring to the government not allowing such a measure, on the grounds that the country “cannot become complicit, even indirectly, of retrograde policies, nor tolerate that vital medical resources are destroyed.”
