Denmark Under Pressure Over Its Decades-Long Forced Contraception of Greenlandic Women – Now, Reports Investigate Whether this Constitutes Genocide
Around half of fertile women in the Arctic Island were fitted with IUDs or given hormone birth control shots. The post Denmark Under Pressure Over Its Decades-Long Forced Contraception of Greenlandic Women – Now, Reports Investigate Whether this Constitutes Genocide appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
TL;DR
- Denmark conducted a program of forced contraception on Greenlandic Inuit women and girls from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
- An estimated 4,000 women and girls, some as young as 12, received IUDs or hormonal birth control shots, often without consent.
- Two reports investigating the practice are examining whether it meets the UN definition of genocide.
- The Danish government has approved compensation of 300,000 Danish kroner (about $46,500) to each victim.
- Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen issued an official apology last year.