Emails detail confusion in State Department over Trump plan to destroy contraceptives
My guess is that agency purposely put out wrong information.
Would love to have had Musk pay for this but I know that will NEVER happen!!
Emails detail confusion in State Department over Trump plan to destroy contraceptives
Story by Adam Taylor, Meg Kelly • 9h •
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/emails-detail-confusion-in-state-department-over-trump-plan-to-destroy-contraceptives/ar-AA27Sfcf?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=b66435549dab497dd5d1b4c7730c30e5&ei=6
Newly disclosed emails reveal confusion at the State Department during the Trump administration’s push last year to destroy almost $10 million worth of family planning commodities in a Belgian warehouse that were intended for distribution in some of the world’s poorest nations.
U.S. diplomats in the region were left in the dark about the supplies sitting in the warehouse in Geel, while a senior official privately shared erroneous information that suggested some of the contraceptives could be used to induce abortions.
The Trump administration, led by billionaire Elon Musk’s government efficiency effort DOGE, moved to dismantle USAID soon after taking office in January 2025, accusing it of being a corrupt and “criminal” organization.
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Because the majority of goods were not stored in a temperature-controlled environment, they were no longer considered safe for use by health care authorities. The U.S. government has spent more than $400,000 dollars on the storage and transportation of the goods, the inspector general estimated.
“This administration talks a lot about waste, fraud and abuse, and trying to root it out, but this is waste, fraud and abuse,” said Liz McCaman Taylor, a lawyer with the Center for Reproductive Rights.
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The plan to destroy contraceptives is also being nurtured by anti-abortion “pro-life” 
groups.