This things first ran on Friday 19 April 2014
Bula Larsen she was 14 when one day she and her friends were told to go to the hospital. Bula lived in Greenland and he was an Inuit like most of the inhabitants of the island, which is an independent territory of Denmark. At the hospital she and her friends lined up and were told to enter the room one by one. Bula recalls being asked how she was going to sit on a bed with “cold metal bars” where, having been fitted for her shock with an IUD, she never asked for or agreed to have a contraceptive coil.
Today, more than 100 women have asked the Danish government for advice on forced contraception. Helen Pidd hears how many thousands of Inuit women and girls – some as young as 13 – have been fitted with orbs. Many say that this was done without the consent of their parents or relatives, and that it caused permanent damage.
Celine Clint He is a Danish journalist whose work scandal is in the coil, together with his colleague Anna Pilegaard Petersen revealed the Danish plan to reduce the birth of Greenland to the maximum amount of money that had to be spent in the country.
Now women are asking for control and the search is over. Will they have justice?
