COPENHAGEN - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has arrived in Denmark’s autonomous territory Greenland for a ceremony Wednesday to apologise in person to the victims of a forced contraception programme that Copenhagen ran for more than three decades.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52200240

From the late 1960s until 1992, Danish authorities forced around 4,500 Inuit women, around half of all those of child-bearing age, to wear a contraceptive coil — or intrauterine device (IUD) — without their consent.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Thanks for digging that up! I could have sworn that part wasn’t in the article when I read it earlier today.