{"id":335575,"date":"2025-08-08T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=335575"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:22:46","slug":"groups-angry-african-women-iuds-trump-stockpile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/groups-angry-african-women-iuds-trump-stockpile\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups angry that African women might not get IUDs if Trump admin destroys stockpile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Many groups are angry that $10 million worth of long-acting birth control, which was to be sent largely to African countries, is allegedly set to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/trump-officials-weigh-fate-of-9m-contraceptives-stockpile-feared-earmarked-for-destruction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incinerated<\/a> following the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to freeze U.S. foreign aid in January.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Takeaways:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>About $9.7 million in long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), like IUDs and implants, were slated for destruction by the end of July. Reports to date indicate the contraceptives have not yet been destroyed.<\/li>\n<li>The contraception was intended to have been distributed in poorer African nations, according to reports.<\/li>\n<li>Pro-abortion groups say destroying the contraception will leave women vulnerable to death from unsafe abortion, but people in Africa are asking for better maternal care, clean water, and economic opportunity \u2014\u00a0not abortion and birth control.<\/li>\n<li>Long-lasting contraception is often referred to as &#8220;soft sterilization.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Details:<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/litigation\/us-funded-contraceptives-poor-nations-be-burned-france-sources-say-2025-07-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department confirmed last month that nearly $10 million worth of long-acting contraception, such as IUDs and implants, will be destroyed. Doctors Without Borders (which receives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/MSF_ANNUAL_REPORT_2023.pdf\">millions in funding each year<\/a> from pro-abortion foundations like Wellspring Philanthropic Fund \u2014 which also funds <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sex-ed-leader-prenatal-development-stigmatize-abortion\/\">SIECUS<\/a> \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.org\/public-health\/increasing-access-to-reproductive-health-care\/\">Bloomberg Philanthropies<\/a>, founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bloomberg-spielberg-helped-defeat-amendment-kansas\/\">billionaire pro-abortion<\/a> former <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/presidential-michael-bloomberg-millions-planned-parenthood\/\">politician<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nyc-mayor-bloomberg-pregnant-employee-kill-it\/\">Michael Bloomberg<\/a>) called it a &#8220;waste of humanitarian aid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But should LARCs and other forms of &#8220;soft sterilization&#8221; be considered part of a global humanitarian effort? According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/18\/trump-administration-destroy-contraceptives-usaid-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>, incinerating the LARCs will cost US taxpayers $167,000, and the contraceptives were likely intended for African women, refugee camps, and war zones.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/18\/trump-administration-destroy-contraceptives-usaid-africa\">attempted<\/a> to pass last-minute legislation to prevent the LARCs from being destroyed, hoping to have them sent to women in low- and middle-income countries. MSI Reproductive Choices, Europe&#8217;s largest abortion chain, was also unhappy with the news that the contraception would not be distributed, claiming that women would die as a result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have an unintended pregnancy and you end up having to seek unsafe abortion, it&#8217;s quite likely that you will die,&#8221; said Sarah Shaw, the associate director of advocacy for MSI Reproductive Choices. &#8220;If you&#8217;re not given the means to space or limit your births, you&#8217;re putting your life at risk or your child&#8217;s life at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6X8RhRovtCc?si=iGX8xhbMxlQGWflx\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/u-s-to-destroy-10-million-in-contraceptives\/\">C-Fam<\/a>, author Lisa Correnti noted that &#8220;The fact that the proposed alternative to destroying the contraceptive commodities would require a violation of the President\u2019s expanded Mexico City Policy illustrates the near impossibility of separating family planning from abortion in international aid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Correnti also noted (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and reorganization of foreign assistance under Secretary of State Marco Rubio could translate to a global health ethos that seeks to optimize health including eradicating preventable maternal deaths.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>USAID\u2019s approach to preventing maternal deaths in the past has been to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/c-fam.org\/friday_fax\/proposed-u-s-legislation-seeks-save-lives-preventing\/\">prevent<\/a>\u00a0pregnancy by providing contraceptives. <strong>The concept of \u201cunmet need\u201d was created by family planning advocates to generate urgency for contraceptive funding, though the metric is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/is-there-an-unmet-need-for-family-planning\">misleading<\/a>\u00a0and does not equate to a lack of access or an actual demand for family planning.<\/strong> Nonetheless, the U.S. Congress has appropriated billions of dollars for overseas family planning which has made its way to organizations whose primary goal is to make abortion a human right.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Imposing Mexico City Policy to all global health by President Trump in his first administration was meant to prevent lining the pockets of these groups operating overseas and making the U.S. taxpayer complicit in global abortion.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters:<\/h2>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nrlc.org\/nrlnewstoday\/2025\/07\/pro-abortion-profiteers-are-targeting-africa\/\">National Right to Life Committee<\/a> (NRLC), African women are a favorite target of the abortion industry.<\/p>\n<p>MSI Reproductive Choices recorded about $55 million in revenue in 2019 and has committed tens of millions of abortions around the world. &#8220;They depend on abortion for their income, so they downplay risks and demand more of it,&#8221; explained NRLC. MSI and other groups promote both birth control and abortion to people in developing nations. If and when that birth control fails, those groups already have an inroad to promote abortion as a backup plan.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Treated as sub-humans&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>MSI is known for its substandard care to women in developing nations. As shown in &#8220;Strings Attached,&#8221; a documentary by Culture of Life Africa&#8217;s Obianuju Ekeocha, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/strings-attached-documentary-western-abortion-africa\/\">MSI implants LARCs such as IUDs and other birth control devices<\/a> but then leaves women to fend for themselves when they experience adverse reactions from these devices. As previously reported by Live Action News (emphases added):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>One woman [Ekeocha] interviewed described \u201cabdomin<\/em><em>al pain, paralysis in hands and legs, vaginal discharge, and severe headache on one side\u201d caused by the [Norplant contraceptive] implant. Another woman said that <strong>when she requested removal of the Norplant, she was told that it would cost her the equivalent of a week\u2019s worth of food for her family to do so.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Dr. Anthony, a physician in a small, rural Ugandan clinic <strong>reported seeing \u201cas many as one hundred women every week\u201d due to serious side effects from Norplant<\/strong>, including \u201cheavy vaginal bleeding, some of them come complaining of headache, severe headache. Some of them have a lot of pain. Some patients come here and they are saying the husbands beat them up because there is a loss of libido. So the man thinks the woman\u2019s going out hitching around.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>He reported one case where a woman had <strong>had an IUD in place for 12 years, a not uncommon experience in rural parts of Africa where followup to contraceptive insertion or implantation is nonexistent. He said the woman was \u201crotting up there,\u201d and that \u201csome patients do die, by the way.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>While American women received financial settlements from the makers of Norplant,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/condoms-water-african-population-control\/\">Ekeocha<\/a> did not know of a single African woman who had been compensated for damage caused by a contraceptive from a Western country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cThese organizations say that they\u2019re empowering women, but they are abusing the Africans, especially the ones in the most rural areas who don\u2019t have access to a doctor,\u201d Ekeocha said. \u201cThe African people are treated as sub-humans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;An Attack on Family and Culture&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Similarly, <a href=\"https:\/\/nrlc.org\/nrlnewstoday\/2025\/07\/pro-abortion-profiteers-are-targeting-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NRLC<\/a> reported that African hospitals often lack blood banks, operating theaters, and antibiotics, increasing the risks associated with abortions \u2014 including hemorrhaging and infections.<\/p>\n<p>If a woman takes the abortion pill alone, who helps her when complications arise? &#8220;Abortion profiteers never answer this question,&#8221; said NRLC, and of course, those profiteers <em>promote the at-home abortion pill without any medical oversight<\/em> as &#8220;safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NRLC added:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Pro-abortion NGOs [Non-Governmental Organizations] have also decided that African sovereignty does not matter. They flood capitals with glossy reports, train mid-level health workers to perform abortions, and lobby lawmakers to weaken pro-life laws. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>They do not ask if African families want their values overturned. Many Africans cherish children and view abortion as an attack on family and culture. They need better maternal care, clean water, and economic opportunity, not foreign corporations selling abortions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the past, the U.S. even sent <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/us-contraceptives-rejected-fda-developing-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsafe<\/a> contraceptives to Africa, with many of the IUDs found to be unsterilized. Boxes of 1,000 IUDs were also sent, but with only a few applicators and instructions for use that were not in the language of the people administering the contraceptive devices. One injectable contraceptive often sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hli.org\/resources\/depo-provera-banned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa<\/a>, Depo-Provera, has been linked to brain tumors. A March 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/us-women-brain-tumors-depo-provera-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> linked the drug medroxyprosterone acetate to meningiomas, with multiple lawsuits filed. In addition, a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-depo-provera-hazardous-womens-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> led by a Michigan State University researcher found that women using Depo-Provera are at an increased risk of having potentially hazardous lead in their blood.<\/p>\n<p>Giving out IUDs and birth control shots is cheaper than providing health care to a growing population, and the government, therefore, kept the lack of standards quiet.<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action News pointed out, &#8220;Whereas American women have ready access to treatment options if they experience significant side effects from the Depo-Provera injection or other forms of birth control, women in developing countries continue to suffer to this day from the &#8216;beneficence&#8217; of Western nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Population Control and &#8220;Soft Sterilization&#8221; through LARCs<\/h3>\n<p>The IUDs also fall in line with population control efforts. In fact, long-acting contraception is also referred to as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/soft-sterilization-doctors-disadvantaged-long-acting-contraception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soft sterilization<\/a>,&#8221; because after women are convinced to use these products, even some doctors right here in America have <em>refused<\/em> to take women off of it when requested. In 2024, TIME exposed these efforts to &#8216;soft sterilize&#8217; women of color and financially disadvantaged women in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Women in South Africa have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-51637751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sterilized<\/a> without their consent, and research shows that groups like MSI Reproductive Choices are ramping up efforts to get African women on &#8220;modern&#8221; (long-acting) contraception.<\/p>\n<h2>The Bottom Line:<\/h2>\n<p>LARCs are risky for women, even in the U.S. where access to health care is not scarce. But in nations with limited access to health care, like Africa, giving women LARCs and leaving them to deal with the consequences on their own, could be a deadly game.<\/p>\n<p>As for the $10M of LARCs set to be destroyed, the executive branch of the European Union spokesman Guillaume Mercier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/trump-officials-weigh-fate-of-9m-contraceptives-stockpile-feared-earmarked-for-destruction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on August 1 that it &#8220;continue[s] to monitor the situation closely to explore the most effective solutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note, 8\/8\/25: This article was edited to add a quote from C-Fam.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Follow Live Action News on <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\"><b><i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> and <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/LiveActionOrg\/\"><b><i>Instagram<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> for more pro-life news.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many groups are angry that $10 million worth of long-acting birth control, which was to be sent largely to African countries, is allegedly set to be incinerated following the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to freeze U.S. foreign aid in January. 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