Brussels (AP) – President Donald Trump’s administration says that they are fighting family planning in Europe and two US senators to save from destruction.
The concerns of family planning on both sides of the Atlantic have annoyed the concerns that the Trump government is planning to burn the stock images. Activists say that the supplies in a camp in Geel, Belgium, stored by the USA contain contraceptive pills, contraception implants and IUPs that could save women in war zones and elsewhere the difficulty of unwanted pregnancies.
The deputy spokesman for the US State Department, Tommy Pigott, said on Thursday in response to a question about the contraceptives that “we are still in the process to determine the way forward”.
“If we have an update, we will make it available,” he said.
Belgium says it spoke to US diplomats about saving the supplies from destruction, including possibly from the warehouse. The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Florinda Baleci, told the Associated Press that she could no longer comment on to avoid the result of the discussions.
The acceptance of the US Agency for International Development, which managed foreign aid programs, left the fate of the stocks uncertain.
Pigott does not detail the types of contraceptives from which the supply is made up of. He said that some of the supplies bought by the previous administration could possibly be medication that should induce abortions. Pigott does not detail how this could affect the Trump administration and thought about how to deal with drugs or the entire stock.
The family planning supplies for women in war zones, refugee camps and elsewhere were financed by the protest letter provided by US taxpayers and other activities to US foreign minister Marco Rubio from the US senators Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat and Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowki.
They said that the destruction of the inventory was “a waste of US taxpayers’ dollars and a trace of the Global leadership of the United States in preventing unintentional pregnancies, uncertain abortions and deaths in mothers -main goals of US foreign support.”
They asked Rubio to enable another country or partner to distribute the contraceptives.
Concerns that have been expressed by European activists and legislators that the supplies could be transported to France have led to government officials intervene in order to intervene and save.
The executive of the European Union said on Friday about the spokesman Guillaume Mercier: “We continue to monitor the situation exactly to explore the most effective solutions.”
The US branch of the family planning group MSI MSI reproductive decisions said that it offered to buy, re -pack and distribute the share at its own expense, but (*9*). The group said that the supplies encompassed long -acting IUPs, contraceptive implants and pills and that they have long malicious life times that extend by 2031.
Doctors of the auxiliary group without limits said that the combustion would be “a deliberately ruthless and harmful act against women and girls everywhere”.
Charles Dallara, the grandson of a French former legislature who was a pioneer of contraceptives in France, asked President Emmanuel Macron not to “leave France to a complicity for this scandal”.
“Do not allow France to take part in the destruction of essential health instruments for millions of women,” Dallara wrote in an appeal to the French guide. “We have a moral and historical responsibility.”
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Leicester reported from Paris. Matthew Lee wore from Washington, DC at
