In the 1960s the birthrate in Greenland was one of the highest in the world. Then it plunged. Decades later, women have finally begun speaking out about what happened
- Because of industrial action taking place by members of the National Union of Journalists at the Guardian and Observer this week, we are re-running an episode from earlier in the year.
This episode originally ran on Friday 19 April 2024
Bula Larsen was 14 when one day she and her friends were told to go to the hospital. Bula lived in Greenland and was Inuit like most of the population of the island, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark. At the hospital she and her friends lined up, and one by one were told to enter a room. Bula recalls how she was asked to sit on a bed with “cold metal stirrups” where, to her shock, she was fitted with an IUD, a contraceptive coil she had never asked for or agreed to have.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/dec/05/revisited-the-chilling-policy-to-cut-greenlands-high-birth-rate-podcast
Author : Guardian Staff
Publish date : 2024-12-05 03:00:32
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