Responding to the news that the US State Department has destroyed $9.7 million of USAID contraceptive supplies, Beth Schlachter, MSI’s Senior Director for US External Relations, said:
“The deliberate destruction of nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives, under the blatantly false pretence that they are abortifacients, is an outrageous act of cruelty.
“What makes this loss especially tragic is that it was entirely preventable. European governments and other organisations including my own had offered to distribute the contraceptives at no cost to the United States.
“This decision will cost lives, derail progress in global health, and strip millions of people of the basic tools they need to plan their families and protect their health.”
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