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Greenland: Inuit women forced by Denmark to wear contraceptive spiral speak out / 32DW7EV
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In 1974, Britta Mortensen, a woman from Illulissat on the western Coast of Greenlandm was forced to carry a spiral without her consent nor that of her parents. "I had to spread my legs, they've put it in me and it was terribly painful. It was a spiral for elderly women who had had children already. Not for young girls like me, I was not even 16". Like 4500 other Inuit girls in the late 60's and early 70's she was the victim of a Danish campaign to limit the birth rate on the island which was by then not a colony anymore. The scale of the procedure was unveiled last spring in a series of Danish podcasts, leading some victims to speak up. After decades of "shame", Britta wants to break the silence and ask the governement to say "sorry for all the pain endured." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES