Denmark apologises to Greenland’s forced contraception victims
Reuters
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the government could not change what had happened but could take responsbility
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to the Greenlandic women and their families affected by what she called "systematic discrimination" during a contraceptive campaign.
During the 1960s and 70s thousands of Inuit women and girls as young as 12 were fitted with contraceptive devices, as part of a birth-control programme administered by Danish doctors.
"We cannot change what has happened. But we can take responsibility," Frederiksen said of the scandal.
"On behalf of Denmark, I would like to say sorry," she said, acknowledging that victims had "experienced both physical and psychological harm".
The sc...