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.
Naja Lyberth: Supplied.

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.