Insoumise France announced, Sunday, August 3, 2025, that it would file a proposal for resolution in the Assembly so that the government requisitioned the stock of female contraceptives that the American administration has decided to destroy, possibly on French soil. Engaged in drastic cuts of its humanitarian aid and in an anti-abortion policy, the Trump administration confirmed in mid-July wanting to “Destroy certain abortive contraceptive products from USAID contracts”.
According to several media, these contraceptives, whose value amounts to almost $ 10 million (around 8.6 million euros), are stored in a warehouse in Geel, Belgium, and their incineration is planned in France. “The French government has still not communicated the expected location of destruction », Déplores LFI in a press release, which also regrets that he “Refuse to activate the existing law, while the public health code authorizes the requisition of all goods and services if the health situation justifies it”. The left movement considers that the destruction of these contraceptives “Go endanger hundreds of thousands of women around the world, to which this stock was promised”.
“Sanitary and political shipwreck”
The Ministry of Health explained on Friday that it did not exist “No legal basis allowing an intervention of a European health authority and a fortiori from the National Agency for Medicines Safety (ANSM) to recover these medical devices”. Consequently, LFI therefore announces to deposit “A proposal for a demanding resolution of the government which it requisitions the entire Stock Stock of the American contraceptive which would circulate on our territory”. The rebellious parliamentary group specifies being “Obviously available to sit in an emergency in an extraordinary way, in order to develop the legal framework if necessary”.
The announcement of this destruction aroused an uproar, especially in France. Feminist associations, trade union organizations and human rights activists have denounced a “Economic mess” and a decision “Insanted”. The number one of the environmentalists, Marine Tondelier, challenged President Emmanuel Macron in an open letter, to prevent the destruction of these contraceptives. The Socialist Party also urged her not to “Being an accomplice of this health and political shipwreck ».
The pioneer’s grandson is indignant
In civil society too, this decision from the Trump administration arouses indignation and anger. A petition against this incineration project was launched in France, Wednesday, July 30, by a collective of associations which brings together in particular family planning, dare feminism or the League for Human Rights, already collecting more than 20,000 signatures. Charles Dallara, grandson of Lucien Neuwirth, pioneer of the law authorizing the contraceptive pill, also took a position. “Do not let France become an accomplice of this scandal”He said on his Facebook account.
