Greenland women seek a reckoning for a 1960s Danish campaign to reduce births
Survivors of the push to widely implant IUDs in Greenlandic women are preparing court cases, and the campaign will be investigated as part of a wider probe into Danish misdeeds in the country.
From 1966 to 1970, during the so-called ”coil campaign” in Greenland that was set in motion by the Danish health authorities, about half the fertile women of Greenland — including girls as young as 13 — had an intrauterine contraceptive device, an IUD, inserted into their uterus.
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