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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
James Brooks

Tears and trauma: Greenlandic women recall forced contraception as a nation seeks forgiveness

At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a contraceptive device by Danish doctors without her consent.

She had become pregnant, and after doctors in the Greenlandic town of Maniitsoq terminated her pregnancy, they fitted her with an intrauterine contraceptive device, commonly known as an IUD, or coil.

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