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Denmark's PM apologizes in person to Greenland women over forced contraception
Asia One Singapore ^ | 9/24/2025 | Reuters

Posted on 09/24/2025 7:59:07 PM PDT by Nextrush

COPENHAGEN-Denmark's Prime Minister apologised in person on Wednesday (Sept24) to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, which has left islanders with deep scars and strained relations with their former colonial power.

Thousands of women and girls as young as 12 were fitted with intrauterine devices without their knowledge or consent between 1966 and 1991, the year Greenland was given authority over its healthcare system...

An investigation this month showed that 4,070 women had been fitted with intrauterine devices by the end of 1970-roughly every second Greenlandic-born woman of childbearing age.

A large number of women reported debilitating abdominal pain and many have not been able to have children even after their device was removed, often due to severe infections...

(Excerpt) Read more at asiaone.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 1966; 1991; abortionhistory; birthcontrol; colonialism; danes; denmark; donaldtrump; eugenics; firstnations; forcedcontraception; greenland; greenlanders; intrauterine; iuds; prolife; skraelings; warcrimes
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"There's something rotten in Denmark" they used to say when I was young and sure enough.

Half the women in Greenland fitted with IUD's birth control devices without their knowledge from 1966 to 1991.

What did Denmark think Greenland was a concentration camp?

President Donald Trump mentioned in the article because of his interest in acquiring Greenland

1 posted on 09/24/2025 7:59:07 PM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush
I read the entire POS and still have no idea why Denmark did such a thing. All the way up until 1991. Wut? Why?

And why does nearly every single journo alive suck now?

2 posted on 09/24/2025 8:06:47 PM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: Nextrush

Well, that’s something....


3 posted on 09/24/2025 8:07:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: AAABEST
Wut? Why?

The only reason this is placed in the news at this time is to continue the process of Greenland alignment with the US, and distancing from Denmark.

The only one.

4 posted on 09/24/2025 8:13:47 PM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Rummyfan

“Birth Control” was the rage in the 1960’s heck celebrated in music only yesterday Loretta Lynn sang about “The Pill”.

Why tell women they were being ‘fixed’ like puppies?


5 posted on 09/24/2025 8:13:55 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: C210N

Trump gets mentioned and dumped on in this story as well.


6 posted on 09/24/2025 8:14:44 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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If they are "sincere", they would allow Greenland the right to self-determination.

And yes, that means Greenland can make a deal with USA.

7 posted on 09/24/2025 8:15:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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These are the kind of people who fully deserve some kind of reparations. All that personal suffering endured, with no explanation and likely no relief provided. Their quality of life thus ruined or damaged beyond repair.

Must have been a poorly thought out attempt at genocide, done in order to lighten the potential costs of these ‘native’ women reproducing but being on the social dole.


8 posted on 09/24/2025 8:17:18 PM PDT by lee martell
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Thoroughly eugenic how did they Nazi this coming?


9 posted on 09/24/2025 8:19:39 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

“Sorry...”


10 posted on 09/24/2025 8:23:06 PM PDT by A strike (f the UK/MI6 effort to sucker the US into perpetuating their delusion of British world importance)
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“fitted with IUD’s birth control devices without their knowledge from 1966 to 1991.”
WTF?
Why?
Screw Denmark and the EU.


11 posted on 09/24/2025 8:30:40 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: AAABEST
For the same reason that in the 1920s and 30s in the US a number of poor women went into hospitals to have their first child and came out with hysterectomies.

In their mind people are animals and should be allowed to breed only with the permission of their betters. And mostly their betters say no unless there is a need for cannon fodder.

Too many of us and just enough of them you know.

12 posted on 09/24/2025 8:31:47 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: C210N

Could also be part of the Turtle Island movement .


13 posted on 09/24/2025 8:47:15 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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How the hell do they fit women with an iud and they dont know? Its not a painless procedure, shoving something through a cervix into the uterus. Unless they had them knocked out, which would be really heinous Orwellian Huxley bs.


14 posted on 09/24/2025 8:51:26 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Nextrush

What role did Margaret Sanger propaganda play?


15 posted on 09/24/2025 8:59:15 PM PDT by healy61
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Half the women in Greenland fitted with IUD's birth control devices without their knowledge from 1966 to 1991.

Unbelievable...

16 posted on 09/24/2025 9:00:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: Nextrush

Without their consent is one thing, but without their knowledge? How in the world can an IUD be inserted without a woman’s knowledge? Unless it is done while she is under general anesthesia for another procedure, I don’t think it’s possible without her knowledge.


17 posted on 09/24/2025 9:05:57 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: Nextrush

And European leaders think they are “civilized.”


18 posted on 09/24/2025 9:06:31 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: exDemMom

These were probably native (Inuit) women, not exactly sophisticated in the ways of the wider world. So if a Danish doctor just vaguely said they were doing something for their own good (blah, blah, blah), they might know something was inserted, but have no idea what it all meant or the impact on their lives. That’s my guess.


19 posted on 09/24/2025 9:08:34 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: AAABEST
I read the entire POS and still have no idea why Denmark did such a thing.

Because Denmark is a monarchy and monarchs despise commoners, especially those they rule over. You can be certain no one in that "royal" family was sterilized by force and deception as part of that program.

The current king, Frederik X, was 23 and "His Royal Highness The Crown Prince of Denmark" in 1991 when the genocide program ended.

20 posted on 09/24/2025 9:22:04 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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