$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

[RandySF]

Millions of dollars’ worth of birth control pills and other contraceptives destined for people in low-income countries have been destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration, the United States Agency for International Development said on Thursday.

The pills, intrauterine devices and hormonal implants, valued at about $9.7 million, had been purchased by the agency before it was largely dismantled earlier this year. They had been stuck in a warehouse in Belgium for months, since the State Department said that contraception was not “lifesaving” and that the United States would no longer fund the purchase of birth control products for low-income nations.

Internal State Department and U.S.A.I.D. documents and correspondence obtained by The New York Times show that several international organizations, including the Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, had offered to buy or accept a donation of the contraceptives. The government would have incurred no costs or might have even been able to recoup taxpayer funds under those scenarios.

Instead the administration decided to proceed with destroying the products, an operation that was estimated to cost $167,000.



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/health/usaid-contraceptives-destroyed-trump.html

[Heidi]

1. Keep people poor and poppin' out babies.

Limit people’s choices. Make people desperate. How’s *this* not “political violence”?

[Lonestarblue]

2. Republicans are content with destroying the lives of women in the US.

They wanted to hurt poor, foreign women also. What a waste of our taxpayer dollars! This whole administration is a waste of our taxpayer dollars.

[Heidi]

3. And then have the gall to lecture us on political violence.