‘I was only a child’: Greenlandic women tell of trauma of forced contraception

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‘I was only a child’: Greenlandic women tell of trauma of forced contraception

Women say being fitted with IUDs without their consent left them with pain, shame and lasting reproductive difficultiesDanish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal womenHedvig Frederiksen had been at her new school in Paamiut, Greenland, for only a couple of days when she was summoned from her dorm to the local hospital by a Danish caretaker.She was 14 and had no idea what was going on. “But back then [1974], when a Danish person said so…