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For decades, Denmark introduced intrauterine devices to Greenland women in order to curb the growth of the island's population. On Thursday, the Government passed a bill on compensation.
It was one of the many discriminatory practices carried out against the women of the island, for years at the center of a political case
This is a historic decision that brings to a close a scandal that has affected several generations of Greenlandic women. The Danish Parliament has just voted to compensate, to the tune of €40,000, women who were victims of a widespread IUD insertion campaign that began in the 1960s, when Denmark was responsible for the healthcare system in Greenland. These IUDs were inserted into at least 4,300 women and girls, some without even being informed o…
Inger Platou loves his two children, the oldest about to turn 35 and the youngest of 33, adopted in Colombia. After countless failed attempts to become pregnant, he accepted that he could never be a biological mother and chose that alternative. During the many medical tests carried out in search of the cause of his sterility, he already knew in adulthood that he had been installed with a DIU contraceptive in his adolescence without his consent. …
On Thursday, the Danish Parliament approved compensation for thousands of women in Greenland who had been implanted, without their consent, intrauterine contraceptive devices for decades.
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