Denmark Publicly Apologizes for Involuntary Birth Control in Greenland

From 1966 to 1991, thousands of Greenlandic women and girls as young as 13 years old were fitted with intrauterine birth control devices without their knowledge or consent under the direction of Danish authorities. Records of 4,500 women—about half of the 9,000 women of fertile age living in the country at the time—who were victims […]
