The Trump administration is allowing a stockpile of nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives to expire in a Belgian warehouse — despite pleas from nonprofit organizations to allow them to deliver the life-saving aid intended for low-income women primarily in sub-Saharan Africa.

Earlier this year, the State Department announced plans to incinerate the contraceptives , which were originally intended for distribution by the U.S. Agency for International Development before Trump dismantled it . The medication includes $9.7 million worth of IUDs, implants, and birth control pills, some of which will get too old to deliver starting in December.

An estimate from the Guttmacher Institute found that the contraceptives could provide pregnancy prevention to roughly 1.6 million women .

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