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‘Get on a plane’: Danish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal women - Lemmy.World
lemmy.worldThe Danish health minister should “get on a plane and visit” some of the
thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly
fitted with the contraceptive coil as children, Greenland’s gender equality
minister has said. In an attempt to reduce the population of the former Danish
colony, at least 4,500 women and girls are believed to have undergone the
medical procedure, usually without their consent or knowledge, at the hands of
Danish doctors between 1966 and 1970 alone. The total number of those affected
by the procedures, thought to have continued for decades, is understood to be
far higher. Victims and their lawyers say generations of Inuit women were left
traumatised and suffering reproductive complications, including infertility, as
a result of the Danish state’s policy. Earlier this month, a group of 143 women
sued the Danish state over the alleged violations, but they have yet to receive
a response from the government, despite the Danish prime minister visiting
Greenland – now an autonomous territory of Denmark – soon after.
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