Bura Larsson She was 14 years old when one day she and a friend were asked to go to the hospital. Bra lived in Greenland, where she was an Inuit like most of the inhabitants of the island, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark. At the hospital, she and her friends were lined up and asked to go into a room one by one. Ms Bourla recalled how she was asked to sit on a bed with “cold metal stirrups” where, shockingly, she was given contraceptives that she had never asked for or consented to. I remember being fitted with an IUD, which is a coil.
More than 100 women are currently suing the Danish government for forced contraception. Helen Pidd hears how thousands of Inuit women and girls, some as young as 13, were fitted with coils. Many say this was done without their or their parents' consent and caused lasting damage.
Celine Clint She is a Danish journalist who, along with her colleague Anne Pillegaard-Petersen, conducted research into the Coil scandal, which led to her research into Denmark's policy to reduce birth rates in Greenland in order to reduce the amount of money it has to spend on the region. revealed that there was.
The women have now filed a complaint against the government and an investigation is underway. Will they get justice?
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