Denmark issues first apology over forced contraception of Greenlandic women

Prime minister admits ‘systemic discrimination’ after thousands of girls and women fitted with IUDs without consent

Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has apologised for the first time for the forced contraception scandal in which thousands of Greenlandic girls and women were fitted with contraceptive coils without their permission or knowledge.

Describing it as “systemic discrimination” against women and girls by the Danish healthcare system, Frederiksen said that because they were Greenlandic they were subjected to “both physical and psychological harm”.