The Trump administration plans to incinerate more than $9.7 million worth of contraceptives funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that have been lying in a warehouse in Belgium since President Trump's order freezing foreign aid and shutting down USAID.

The U.S. government is spending more than $160,000 to burn the mix of birth control pills, shots, implants, and IUDs at a facility in France that destroys medical waste, according to The New York Times.

A spokesperson for the State Department did not immediately respond to questions from The Hill on when the incineration will take place.

The department in a statement confirmed to the Times that there was a plan to incinerate the products. It also said the products to be incinerated were "aborifacient," meaning th

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