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Denmark to Compensate Greenlandic Women over Forced Contraception - The Press United

Around 4,500 may qualify for a payout for being subjected to involuntary birth control from the 1960s to as late as the 1990s Denmark will pay around $47,000 to each Greenlandic woman who can attest to having been implanted with a contraceptive device without consent while Copenhagen controlled the island’s healthcare system. Around 4,500 women […] The post Denmark to compensate Greenlandic women over forced contraception appeared first on The P…

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This is a historic decision that brings to a close a scandal that has affected several generations of Greenlandic women. The Danish Parliament has just voted to compensate, to the tune of €40,000, women who were victims of a widespread IUD insertion campaign that began in the 1960s, when Denmark was responsible for the healthcare system in Greenland. These IUDs were inserted into at least 4,300 women and girls, some without even being informed o…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Inger Platou loves his two children, the oldest about to turn 35 and the youngest of 33, adopted in Colombia. After countless failed attempts to become pregnant, he accepted that he could never be a biological mother and chose that alternative. During the many medical tests carried out in search of the cause of his sterility, he already knew in adulthood that he had been installed with a DIU contraceptive in his adolescence without his consent. …

·Madrid, Spain
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On Thursday, the Danish Parliament approved compensation for thousands of women in Greenland who had been implanted, without their consent, intrauterine contraceptive devices for decades.

·Bucharest, Romania
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In 2024, a hundred gifts will denounce Denmark and ara will be indemnitzades amb 40,000 euros

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Denmark has used spirals in Greenland for decades without their consent. Thus, health costs and population growth should probably be reduced. Now thousands of women wink a pain allowance. Denmark wants to pay affected Grönländerinnen in the spiral scandal a compensation in the amount of around 40,000 euros. For this the Danish parliament gave green light on Thursday.A claim to the sum have women who were used spirals without their knowledge or t…

·Vienna, Austria
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In Denmark, Parliament voted to financially compensate the victims of forced prevention in Greenland.

·Germany
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DR broke the news in Copenhagen, Denmark on Thursday, August 27, 2026.
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