Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen apologized in person this week to victims of a forced contraception program in Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland that ran for more than three decades.
Between the late 1960s and 1992, Danish authorities aimed to reduce the Inuit birth rate by forcing around 4,500 women to wear a contraceptive coil — or intrauterine device (IUD) — without their consent.
Frederiksen said during a ceremony in Nuuk on Wednesday afternoon it had been a "betrayal that had major consequences for Greenlandic girls," adding: "On behalf of Denmark, I apologize."
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