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- International Planned Parenthood condemns plan to burn US-funded contraceptives</p>
<p>Charlotte Van CampenhoutJuly 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM</p>
<p>By Charlotte Van Campenhout</p>
<p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) on Friday condemned a plan to incinerate U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million in France, a move reported by Reuters earlier this week.</p>
<p>The supplies, including contraceptive implants and pills, have been sitting for months in a warehouse in Geel, a city in Belgium's Antwerp province, after President Donald Trump froze U.S. foreign aid in January. They are now being sent to France for destruction.</p>
<p>IPPF called on the French, Belgian and U.S. governments to find a way to save the contraceptives, and on the French company that would be responsible for the destruction "to reconsider its role".</p>
<p>"This is an intentional act of reproductive coercion," it said in a statement.</p>
<p>Washington has previously said it did not want any USAID-branded supplies, like the ones in Belgium, to be rerouted elsewhere.</p>
<p>A source with knowledge of the issue told Reuters that the Trump administration was acting in accordance with the Mexico City policy, an anti-abortion pact in which Trump reinstated U.S. participation in January.</p>
<p>The State Department also told Reuters that related concerns about the end-destination of the contraceptives were factors in the decision.</p>
<p>The IPPF said it had offered to collect the products, transport and repack them and to distribute the products onwards to women in need across the globe - "all at no cost to the US government" - but that the offer was rejected by the U.S. government.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout; Editing by Toby Chopra)</p>
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