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$9.7 million of U.S.-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France: Reuters
GEEL, BELGIUM, JUL 24 – U.S. rejects offers to redistribute nearly $9.7 million in contraceptives due to policy restricting abortion-related funding, leading to incineration of supplies in France.
- From a warehouse in Geel, Belgium, the U.S. government began transporting $9.7 million of contraceptives to a French medical waste facility, launching their disposal.
- The reinstated Mexico City policy, which bars U.S. aid to organizations involved in abortion services, kept contraceptives in Belgium since a January freeze on foreign aid, prompting their destruction.
- The U.S. State Department confirmed the incineration will cost $167,000, and Sarah Shaw said the stocks include implants, pills and intrauterine devices.
- Reproductive health advocates decried, `Washington is incinerating life-saving contraceptives`, underscoring global concern, while critics called U.S. policy an `ideological assault`.
- Despite legislative efforts, U.S. lawmakers say two bills to halt incineration are unlikely to pass in time, the U.S. State Department spokesperson said.
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US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burnt in France, sources say
US-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10m (R177.15m) are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the UN and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.
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