Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday apologised in person to victims of a forced contraception programme in Denmark’s autonomous territory Greenland that ran for more than three decades. Between the late 1960s and 1992, Danish authorities aimed to reduce the Inuit birth rate by forcing around 4,500 women to wear a contraceptive coil — or intrauterine device (IUD) — without their consent. Emerald Maxwell reports.
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