Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to Greenlandic women and their families following revelations that thousands were subjected to coerced contraception.
The scandal first came to light in 2022 through an investigative podcast called Spiralkampagnen (“the coil campaign”), which uncovered extensive documentation showing that between 1966 and 1970 at least 4,500 women and girls, some as young as 13, had been fitted with contraceptive intra-uterine devices (IUDs) but often without consent.
