Overview

• A petition launched on July 30 has garnered nearly 4 000 signatures urging Paris to oppose the planned late-July destruction and allow humanitarian redistribution
• Belgium has opened diplomatic démarches with the U.S. embassy in Brussels and is exploring temporary relocation of the $9.7 million stockpile
• France’s Ministry of Health has pledged to monitor the operation closely and affirmed support for Belgian efforts under its feminist foreign-policy commitment
• Charles Dallara, grandson of Lucien Neuwirth, wrote to President Macron demanding France recover and properly deploy the contraceptives
• The incineration, ordered under the Trump administration’s anti-abortion agenda, is estimated to cost $167 000 and provokes criticism as both a human and economic waste