About $15m-worth of birth control medication is due to go up in smoke as a result of the funding cuts to USAID by the Trump administration. Rather than distribute the contraception to low-income countries, the US has decided to burn it. Sarah Shaw, Associate Director of Advocacy at MSI Reproductive Choices, explains why she believes the move is an attack on the reproductive freedom of some of the most vulnerable women in the world.
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