Destruction of contraceptives by the United States: LFI requests requisition of stock

Committed to drastic cuts in its humanitarian aid and an anti-abortion policy, the Trump administration confirmed in mid-July that it wanted to "destroy certain abortive contraceptive products from USAID contracts."

According to several media reports, these contraceptives, worth nearly $10 million, are stored in a warehouse in Geel, Belgium, and are planned to be incinerated in France.

Millions of women at risk

"The French government has still not communicated the intended location of destruction," deplores LFI in a press release, which also regrets that it "refuses to activate the existing law, while the public health code authorizes the requisition of all goods and services if the health situation justifies it."

La France Insoumise considers that the destruction of these contraceptives "will endanger hundreds of thousands of women around the world, to whom this stock was promised."

The Ministry of Health explained on Friday that there was "no legal basis for intervention by a European health authority, let alone the French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM), to recover these medical devices."

LFI therefore announces that it will submit "a proposed resolution demanding that the government requisition all US contraceptive supplies circulating on our territory."

The rebellious parliamentary group specifies that it is "obviously available to sit urgently in an extraordinary manner, in order to change the legal framework if necessary."

The announcement of this destruction sparked an outcry, particularly in France. Feminist associations, trade unions, and human rights activists denounced it as an "economic waste" and a "senseless" decision.