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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Miranda Bryant in Stockholm

Greenlandic women plan to sue Danish state over historical contraceptive ‘violation’

A woman pushes a pram along a road in western Greenland with ice and sea in the background.
A woman pushes a pram along a road in western Greenland. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Dozens of Greenlandic women who say they were fitted with the contraceptive coil without their consent or knowledge are planning to sue the Danish state.

The group of 67 women, some of whom were as young as 12 when they say they were fitted with an IUD by Danish doctors in an attempt to reduce Greenland’s population, are among the 4,500 women and girls affected between 1966 and 1970.

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