this episode Originally aired on Friday, April 19, 2024
bra larsen She was 14 years old when one day she and a friend were asked to go to the hospital. Bra lived in Greenland and 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. Bourla recalled being asked to sit on a bed with “cold metal stirrups” where, shockingly, she was fitted with contraceptive coils, which she had never asked for or consented to. I remember being fitted with an IUD.
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 on the Coil scandal, which led to her research on Denmark's policy to lower Greenland's birth rate 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?
