‘Doctors fitted a contraceptive coil without my consent’
A Danish investigation will look at a historic scandal in Greenland, but women tell the BBC of recent involuntary contraception. …
In 1970, the campaign was considered a “success” as fertility rates had fallen sharply, though the rate continued to fall for some time after that. In the eight years from the campaign’s inception in 1966 until 1974 when it levelled off, Greenland’s fertility rate plunged from seven children per woman, to 2.3.
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