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Greenland women take Denmark to court over historical involuntary birth control

A population control measure involved implanting coil devices in women to prevent pregnancies in Greenland.
Around 4,500 women and girls, reportedly half of fertile women in Greenland, received these implants between the 1960s and mid-1970s.
The coil, a T-shaped plastic and copper device, was inserted into the uterus to prevent fertilization of eggs by sperm.

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