Exclusive: Territory’s government calls for visit to listen to those thought to be living with consequences of forced fitting of IUDs

The Danish health minister should “get on a plane and visit” some of the thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly fitted with the contraceptive coil as children, Greenland’s gender equality minister has said.

In an attempt to reduce the population of the former Danish colony, at least 4,500 women and girls are believed to have undergone the medical procedure, usually without their consent or knowledge, at the hands of Danish doctors between 1966 and 1970 alone.

The total number of those affected by the procedures, thought to have continued for decades, is understood to be far higher. Victims and their lawyers say generations of Inuit women were left traumatised and suffering reproductive complications, including infertility, as a result of the Danish state’s policy.

Earlier this month, a group of 143 women sued the Danish state over the alleged violations, but they have yet to receive a response from the government, despite the Danish prime minister visiting Greenland – now an autonomous territory of Denmark – soon after.

  • PugJesus@kbin.social
    34·
    3 months ago

    Goodbye, White Savior. Thank you for teaching me the follies of my own experiences. I’ll kowtow and beat my head on the ground in praise of how liberal you’ve been to me.

      • PugJesus@kbin.social
        33·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, that’s about the reaction I expected. You have fun being incredibly racist against mixed-race individuals.

          • PugJesus@kbin.social
            31·
            3 months ago

            Aww, you’re such a butthurt little liar! So adorable! 😂

            So now I’m not even biracial according to you. Wow. Thank you for explaining that to me. I don’t know what I would do without white saviors like you.

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              52·
              3 months ago

              So now I’m not even biracial according to you

              Yet another thing I never said 🥱

              Didn’t even know that it was yourself you were talking about when you brought up mixed race people until now lol.

              But just to be clear: I am not denigrating mixed race people in general. I am making fun of YOU specifically because YOU specifically are BEHAVING like an idiot, which has nothing to do with race.

              • PugJesus@kbin.social
                21·
                3 months ago

                Yet another thing I never said 🥱

                Yeah, that’s about the reaction I expected. You have fun being incredibly racist against mixed-race individuals.

                Aww, you’re such a butthurt little liar! So adorable! 😂

                The options given that context are:

                1. You were calling me a liar for accusing you of being a racist after you spent an entire comment chain telling me that mixed-race people don’t get to have a say in what is and is not offensive to them.

                2. You were calling me a liar for claiming to be mixed-race.

                Take your pick.

                • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  42·
                  3 months ago

                  You were calling me a liar for accusing you of being a racist

                  Bingo! Got it in one!

                  you spent an entire comment chain telling me that mixed-race people don’t get to have a say in what is and is not offensive to them.

                  I did nothing of the sort, no. That only happened inside your fevered imaginings.

                  • PugJesus@kbin.social
                    22·
                    3 months ago

                    I did nothing of the sort, no. That only happened inside your fevered imaginings.

                    lmao