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<\/p>
Bula Larson<\/strong> 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 \u2018cold metal stirrups\u2019 where, to her shock, she was fitted with an IUD, a contraceptive coil she had never asked for or agreed to have.<\/p> Today, more than 100 women are suing the Danish government for a policy of forced contraception. Helen Pidd hears how thousands of Inuit women and girls \u2013 some aged just 13 \u2013 were fitted with coils. Many say this was done without their or their parents\u2019 consent, and caused lasting damage.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n