This episode initially ran on Friday 19 April 2024
Bula Larsen was 14 when sooner or later she and her buddies have been advised to go to the hospital. Bula lived in Greenland and was Inuit like a lot of the inhabitants of the island, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark. On the hospital she and her buddies lined up, and one after the other have been advised to enter a room. Bula remembers how she was requested to take a seat on a mattress with “chilly steel stirrups” the place, to her shock, she was fitted with an IUD, a contraceptive coil she had by no means requested for or agreed to have.
Immediately, greater than 100 girls are suing the Danish authorities for a coverage of compelled contraception. Helen Pidd hears how 1000’s of Inuit girls and ladies – some aged simply 13 – have been fitted with coils. Many say this was achieved with out their or their dad and mom’ consent, and induced lasting harm.
Celine Klint is a Danish journalist whose work on the coil scandal, alongside together with her colleague Anne Pilegaard Petersen, revealed there had been a Danish coverage to scale back Greenland’s birthrate to chop the amount of cash that needed to be spent on the area.
Now the ladies are suing the federal government and an inquiry is underneath approach. Will they get justice?
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