Article 70AFE Denmark's PM apologizes for coercive contraception program in Greenland

Denmark's PM apologizes for coercive contraception program in Greenland

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Denmark issued a formal apology yesterday for forcing Indigenous women and girls from Greenland to use contraceptive devices. Beginning in the 1960s, Danish doctors inserted IUDs into thousands of Inuit women and school-age girls, often without their or their parents' knowledge or consent. Host Carolyn Beeler learns more about the controversial program from Victoria Pihl Sorensen, a Danish historian who has studied Denmark's IUD program in Greenland. She's now a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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