Emmanuel Macron exhorted not to “make himself an accomplice”

The United States has made the decision to destroy almost $ 10 million in France in female contraceptives for international aid. Therefore,

It is $ 9.7 million in female contraceptive products that the United States wants to destroy. Moreover, A colossal stock. Nevertheless, in particular intrauterine devices (commonly known as IUDs) and implants, originally intended for USAID, the American agency for international development that Donald Trump has dismantled. Meanwhile, These products were to join Africa.

“This is an intentional act of reproductive coercion”. an “insane” decision, denounced Friday, July 25, the family schedule in a joint declaration with the secular federation of family planning centers (FLCPF), the International emmanuel macron exhorted not “make Federation for Family Planning (IPPF), Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Sensoa Belgium and Countdown 2030 Europe. “Today, contraceptive pallets remain unused in warehouses, especially in Geel, in Belgium, while waiting to be destroyed. In France, they would already be programmed to be cremated in the coming days.”

The American decision is “an affront to the fundamental principles of solidarity” – Emmanuel macron exhorted not "make

Saturday. July 26, environmentalists sent an open letter to President Emmanuel Macron to exhort him to intervene and not to “make himself an accomplice, even indirectly, of retrograde policies”. The products “are always usable. are actively sought by field players such as the UNFPA or MSI Reproductive Choices, who declared themselves ready to recover them at their expense,” it is written in the letter. And to add: the American decision is “an affront to the fundamental principles of solidarity. public health and sexual and reproductive rights that France has undertaken emmanuel macron exhorted not “make to defend”.

The spokesperson for the US State Department assured that the decision has been made “to destroy certain abortive contraceptive. products from USAID contracts”. “No HIV drug or condom will be destroyed,” she added. Since the return to power of Donald Trump. the United States has refused to finance any direct or indirect help for NGOs practicing abortion or promoting family planning.

According to Doctors Without Borders. several NGOs have proposed in the United States to buy the stock of products, “but the US government has declined these offers”. The organization asks for the French company “which would be responsible for destroying these contraceptives” to refuse.