News $10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
News $10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
Sep 13 2025, 2:46 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/health/usaid-contraceptives-destroyed-trump.html
https://archive.ph/SWeoY
Quote:Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.
Quote:The Belgian government staged a wide-ranging diplomatic effort to prevent the contraceptives from being incinerated at a medical waste facility. The foreign minister, Maxime Prévot, wrote to Mr. Rubio to try to prevent it, according to a Belgian foreign ministry official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the diplomatic matter.
More recently, authorities in Flanders, the region where the warehouse is, had been trying to invoke a legal ban on incinerating still-usable medical products to prevent the destruction.
Those overtures seemed at least to delay the planned incineration. The stockpile did not appear to have been burned by the end of July, as earlier reports had suggested that it would be.
Quote:In the list of potential arguments against a sale, officials invoked policies preventing the U.S. government from providing aid to overseas nongovernmental organizations that provide or help with access to abortions, based on a rule that the Trump administration reinstated. U.S.A.I.D. staff members offered solutions to donate the supply that they argued did not conflict with this policy.
In summary, despite all the attempts to get a better outcome, the Trump administration went and did it anyway.
Sept. 11, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/health/usaid-contraceptives-destroyed-trump.html
https://archive.ph/SWeoY
Quote:Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.
Quote:The Belgian government staged a wide-ranging diplomatic effort to prevent the contraceptives from being incinerated at a medical waste facility. The foreign minister, Maxime Prévot, wrote to Mr. Rubio to try to prevent it, according to a Belgian foreign ministry official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the diplomatic matter.
More recently, authorities in Flanders, the region where the warehouse is, had been trying to invoke a legal ban on incinerating still-usable medical products to prevent the destruction.
Those overtures seemed at least to delay the planned incineration. The stockpile did not appear to have been burned by the end of July, as earlier reports had suggested that it would be.
Quote:In the list of potential arguments against a sale, officials invoked policies preventing the U.S. government from providing aid to overseas nongovernmental organizations that provide or help with access to abortions, based on a rule that the Trump administration reinstated. U.S.A.I.D. staff members offered solutions to donate the supply that they argued did not conflict with this policy.
In summary, despite all the attempts to get a better outcome, the Trump administration went and did it anyway.