# Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has apologised to more than four-thousand-500 Greenlandic victims of Denmark’s forced contraception campaign aimed at reducing the Inuit birth rate. From the 1960s until 1992, Danish authorities forced about half of the island’s 9-thousand fertile Inuit women to wear a contraceptive coil, or intrauterine device, without their or their family’s consent. Many of the women were left sterile and almost all of them have suffered from physical or psychological problems. Around 150 of the women have sued the Danish state for violating their rights.
Danish Prime Minister apologises for forcing birth control on Greenlandic women