Doctors fitted women with IUDs without their knowledge to drive down birth rates
Indigenous women from Greenland say the campaign was supposed to have ended by 1974 but continued until much later.
A group of women from Greenland are demanding compensation after doctors fitted them with IUDs without either their consent or knowledge in an attempt to limit Inuit birth rates.
Records from the national archives in Denmark showed that between 1966 and 1970 some 4500 early versions of an IUD called the Lippes Loop were fitted.
The devices were designed for women who had gone through childbirth but were still used on girls as young as 13.
When the campaign was scaled back in 1974, Greenland’s fertility rate had fallen from seven children per woman to around 2.3.
