“Hundreds of thousands of women in danger”: LFI requests the application of the contraceptive stock that the United States wants to destroy

Insumise France announced this Sunday, August 3, presented a resolution proposal to the Assembly on Sunday, August 3, so that the Government requests the female contraceptive stock that the US administration has decided to destroy, possibly on French soil.

Participated in drastic cuts of its humanitarian aid and an anti -abortion policy, the Trump administration has confirmed in mid -July “to” destroy certain abortive contraceptive products of USAID contracts. “

According to several media, these contraceptives, whose value amounts to almost $ 10 million, are stored in a warehouse in Geel, Belgium, and their incineration is planned in France.

“The French government has not yet communicated the expected location of destruction,” LFI deplores in a press release, which also regrets that “refuses to activate the existing law, while the Public Health Code authorizes the application ‘of all goods and services’ If ‘the health situation justifies it'”.

“Hundreds of thousands of women” “in danger”

Insumise France considers that the destruction of these contraceptives “will endanger hundreds of thousands of women in the world, which this stock was promised.”

The Ministry of Health explained to the AFP on Friday that “there was no legal basis that allowed an intervention of a European health authority and a fortiori of the National Medicines Security Agency (ANSM) to recover these medical devices.”

Therefore, LFI announces to deposit “a proposal for a demanding resolution of the Government that requests the entire stock of American contraceptives that would circulate in our territory.” The rebel parliamentary group specifies that “it is obviously available to sit in an extraordinary emergency, to develop the legal framework if necessary.”

The announcement of this destruction aroused a fuss, especially in France. The women’s associations, trade union organizations and human rights activists have denounced an “economic disaster” and a “crazy” decision.

The number one of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier challenged President Emmanuel Macron in an open letter, to avoid the destruction of these contraceptives. The Socialist Party also urged it to “be an accomplice of this sinking of health and politics.”