(18 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brussels, Belgium – 18 September 2025
1. Wide pan of demonstrators with posters chanting UPSOUND (English) ‘Shame, shame, shame, Trump is to blame’
2. Medium of protesters chanting
3. Close of woman chanting and holding wooden cross with inscription reading (English) ‘161,000 unplanned births’ and poster reading (English) ‘Trump destroys lives and money’
4. Wide of protesters chanting and holding banner reading (English) ‘Reproductive freedom for all!’
5. Protesters holding wooden crosses and posters chanting
6. Various of protesters holding wooden crosses
7. Protesters holding wooden crosses with U.S. embassy on the background
8. Wide of International Planned Parenthood Federation regional director Micah Grzywnowicz talking
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Micah Grzywnowicz, regional director for the International Planned Parenthood Federation:
"It’s very clear that this is a tactic, it’s a long-term game to dismantle the global health system that we have, public health. Of course, NGOs and other governments, like the Belgian government, are listening and they are doing their best. But of course, it is about control, right? It’s about control, of our bodies, our decision-making and we are not the ones who have control right now."
10. Close of posters reading (English) ‘Trump destroys lives and money’
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Micah Grzywnowicz, regional director for the International Planned Parenthood Federation:
"If you see at the list of the countries that the supplies were supposed to go, it’s five African countries including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Mali, Tanzania, Zambia, those countries are already in huge need of supplies, contraceptives. For instance in Tanzania those supplies that were supposed to be sent it’s one-third of the whole need of the health system. And in human numbers, it is one and a half million women and girls who were supposed to get life-saving supplies. It’s a huge impact on real people’s lives and their health."
12. Various of protesters, signs
13. Pan from protesters to U.S. embassy
14. Close of U.S. flag
15. Wide of protest
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Geel, Belgium – 18 September 2025
16. Various views of the warehouse where the US birth control supplies are stored
STORYLINE:
Dozens of women’s rights activists rallied near the U.S. embassy in Brussels on Thursday to protest possible Trump administration plans to destroy millions of dollars in family planning supplies meant for women living in hardship in Africa.
A crowd of around 50 people joined the rally, chanting “shame, shame, shame, Trump is to blame.”
Some held wooden crosses with “700+ women dead” and “people will die” written on them.
Others stood behind a banner marked “productive freedom for all.”
Costing more than $9 million and funded by U.S taxpayers, the birth control stocks were intended for women in places like war zones or refugee camps, according to U.S. senators.
The supplies are stored in a warehouse in Geel, Belgium. They include contraceptive pills, contraceptive implants and IUDs that could spare women the burden of unwanted pregnancies.
The head of the Europe branch of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Micah Grzywnowicz, said that the supplies should have gone to five African countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mail, Tanzania and Zambia.
“It’s very clear that this is a tactic. It’s a long-term game to dismantle the global health system that we have,” they told The Associated Press.
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