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Activists say that incinerating the stockpile could result in 362,000 unwanted pregnancies and the deaths of more than 700 women linked to childbirth or pregnancy.

A crowd of around 50 people joined the rally in Brussels, chanting “Shame, shame, shame, Trump is to blame.� Some held wooden crosses with “700+ women dead� and “people will die� written on them.

The stocks — costing more than $9 million and funded by U.S taxpayers — were intended for women in war zones or refugee camps, according to senators , a New Hampshire Democrat, and Alaska Republican .

The possibility that the stockpile — which includes contraceptive pills, implants and IUDs — could be destroyed has angered family planning advocates on both sides of the Atlantic.

U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Tommy Pigott said last month that no final decision on the contraceptives had been taken and that the administration is still “determining the way forward.�

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, Mali, Tanzania and Zambia.

“In Tanzania, those supplies that were supposed to be sent, it’s one-third of the whole needs of the health system. And in human numbers, it is one and a half million women and girls who are supposed to get life-saving supplies,� Grzywnowicz said.

“It’s very clear that this is a tactic. It’s a long-term game to dismantle the global health system that we have,� Grzywnowicz told The Associated Press. “It’s about control — our bodies, our decision-making, and we are not the ones who have control right now.�

Belgium has been talking with U.S. diplomats about trying to spare the supplies from destruction, including moving them out of the warehouse. The regional government in Flanders, where they are stored, has a ban on incinerating reusable goods.

They can only be burned “if an exemption from the incineration ban is granted by the Minister for the Environment and a double levy on waste incineration is paid,� said the ministry’s communications chief, Tom Demeyer.

“No such exemption has been requested or granted to date,� he told the AP on Wednesday.

Demeyer said the Flemish environment department authorities inspected the warehouse last week to ensure that the birth control supplies were still there. Incineration facilities in the area have been warned to notify authorities should an attempt be made to destroy them.