The Trump administrator should burn $ 10 million contraceptive instead of distributing it: report

Nearly $ 10 million in contraceptives already paid by the United States are on the road from Belgium to France for incineration.

Pills, intrauterine devices and condoms have taken place in a warehouse in Antwerp, Belgium, since January, following President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid. Family planning supplies will be burned in France after transport – an operation that will cost taxpayers additional $ 167,000, according to a spokesperson for the State Department who confirmed the decision with The Guardian.

The administration would have refused offers from family planning and United Nations organizations to buy and distribute supplies to women in need. According to Sarah Shaw, associate director of the advocacy of MSI Reproductive Choices, the government would not accept the full price of products, that its world family planning organization could not afford in addition to transport.

“It’s not just an empty shelf,” Shaw told the Guardian. “This is an unsatisfied potential. It is a girl who must abandon school. He is someone who has to seek a dangerous abortion and risk her life.”

The stopover is part of a wider initiative of DOGE dismantling of the USAID.

Earlier this month, reports revealed the Trump administration plans to incinerate 500 tonnes of emergency food aid, then to feed 1.5 million hungry children in Gaza for a week. Food, stored in water, was deemed expired, but, according to the staff of the USAID career, could still have been securely distributed.

Help freezing has also delayed the delivery of MPOX vaccines promised to African countries that are suffering from epidemics. A politico report found that nearly 800,000 doses will expire in less than six months, making them unacceptable to shipping.

Despite the objections of humanitarian organizations which argue that the rigid application of the administration policy harms the vulnerable populations, the White House maintains that it protects taxpayers’ funds and adheres to legal restrictions using agencies that offer abortion.

Originally published on Latin Times