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Forced contraception victims deserve more contrition from Denmark

By Barry Scott Zellen September 2, 2025

It felt like whiplash. First came the heartache on Aug. 11, when Aviaja-Luuna was taken from the embrace of her mother, Ivana Nikoline Brønlund, just an hour after what should have been the joyful celebration of her birth. It was the latest example of Denmark’s policy of forcibly separating Inuit newborns based on the racist and discredited methodology of a parenting competence test that punishes victims of trauma with an even greater trauma in violation of Danish law.

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