The practice went on for decades and many patients were never told what had been placed inside them. Some learned only years later when they had health complications. Some women were left infertile for life.... Denmark colonized Greenland more than three centuries ago.... The campaign started in the 1960s and affected thousands of Greenlandic women and girls but was brought to light only a few years ago. Danish doctors, who were running Greenland’s health care system at the time, inserted IUDs in women and girls with the intent of preventing pregnancies and controlling Greenland’s birth rate....
August 27, 2025
"We cannot change what has happened. But we can take responsibility. Therefore, on behalf of Denmark, I would like to say sorry."
Said Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, quoted in "Denmark Apologizes After Birth Control Scandal in Greenland/For years, Danish doctors inserted intrauterine devices in Greenlandic girls and women without their consent, part of a painful legacy of mistreatment" (NYT).
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The young ladies from Appalachia would like to have a word with the American medical establishment as well.
https://mds.marshall.edu/asa_conference/2014/Full/251/
https://doi.org/10.1080/14636770600855390
And etcetera
Diabolical.
I wonder why people are so mistrustful of the medical establishment in such matters, these days?
"We should be more like the Europeans." - The Left
Unrelated: over the last few years Denmark has been the leftie’s ‘why can’t we be more like____’ country, overtaking Swee-den for the top spot…
Hey Greenland - non-leftist Americans will treat you right.
How eugenic of them.
Similar thing occurred to black female prison inmates in Democratic run CA.
if you were to retrospectively impose a perspective that saw modern culture's obsessions with feminism, gender theory, and "reproductive rights" as weapons of domination by the powerful over the weak and credulous, quite a few data points would make more sense.
This fits in as a part of a paper I am writing.
People are noticing that women in general vote for things that tear society apart and lead to it's downfall. It comes down to the biological drives and procreative competition.
When men compete to procreate they do so by generating enough resources and security to attract mates. The more safety and resources they produce the more they have an opportunity to mate. Men are rewarded for building wealth and creating security by having more of their genes survive in an open ended formula.
Women are however biologically limited. They can realistically have 5-7 surviving children if they choose the perfect mate that can provide everything they need. More than that is outlier. So women's reproductive competition is Zero Sum. The best way to ensure the success of their offspring is to sabotage the offspring of lower status women.
As leaders go it is the difference between Ghengis Khan and Margaret Sanger.
You can tell when women start to gain power. They start pushing shit like this sterilizing women and preventing "unwanted" babies.
Unwanted babies = competition for their babies.
It also means eventual demographic collapse. Right now we face 2 choices:
1. Continue to let all women vote and accept they will eventually destroy civilization.
2. Repeal the 19th.
I am trying to bring forth a 3rd path. We need to restrict voting rights to people with a proven record of moral development and self awareness. It may be a small number of women capable of this but it is better than the first 2 options.
It's almost like some people in positions of power will do whatever they can get away with. Trust the experts.
One-child, selective-child, and no-child. Our Choice, your Choice, and no Choice. Progress is a queer religious rite of weird conception with a transhumane orientation.
"Denmark colonized Greenland more than three centuries ago..."
There's that word again. The historically correct word is annexed. NYT is inhabited by ignorami.
This is not enamoring me of government-run medicine.
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
Ok. At first I took offense at the "something happened" wording - but after all, this current incarnation of the government of Denmark did not take this action. So maybe this is the correct thing to say: our nation did something terrible to you and we're sorry, The End. I was about to get up in arms about it, and then, of course, slavery occurred to me: "white America" is always and forever on the hook for that terrible wrong, in some quarters, and no mere apology will ever be enough.
Not, apparently, will a war fought to right the wrong, untold billions (more?) of dollars spent on attempts to correct its aftereffects (most of them ineffective or a cure worse than the disease, but the money was spent nonetheless), and a complete overhaul of American society from top to bottom.
So maybe Denmark today is being prudent.
Translation: We’re sorry we got caught. Please don’t be offended because…. Trump.
Number of feet of roads that connect Greenland’s villages to each other: zero. The Danes really put a lot of effort into supporting Greenlanders.
Denmark summons US envoy over claims of interference in Greenland ~ AP
Last Friday Trump pulled Orsted's permits on an offshore wind project in Rhode Island and Connecticut, even though its 80% completed. At first I thought its because Orsted released its 1st half 2025 data on its Long Island offshore wind farm, and the results were fantastic. Now I'm thinking he's trying to leverage Denmark on Greenland.
The Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee did not end until 1972. When the details were told (and responsibility for the program were transferred) to the CDC, the org and doctors leafing it initially had no problem with it.
Selective-child is still a thing pushed in liberal societies. Wait, "benefits", tax, abort, then drugs, disposal, and hope perchance sterility.
When it comes to native children, Denmark is lmost as bad as Canada!
Why would the doctors do this? Were they directed to? By whom?
Greenland women sleep around a lot so it perhaps made sense. Long nights, communal bed, and now spotting.
If this was done to inhibit population growth, then would it be fair to force the progeny of those doctors to live in Greenland? Forced public service, like a draft.
@ Achilles - don’t forget the planet killing nesting instinct of adult females. And your third way is doomed to failure. Who will be the judge of said “moral development”?
At least it is an honest acknowledgment, unlike the land apologies that are now all the rage. “Sorry my great great great great great great grandfather horned in on your ancestor’s territory.”
I note Kak is more concerned about Trump! than he is that his good Euro leftist weenies were forcibly sterilizing women without their knowledge. That's just fine for Kak, apparently.
Maybe Greenland would be much better off as a US Territory, where hopefully at least we won't be trying to genocide them. At least until leftists get back into power again. Right Kak?
So, were any names of the people who ordered this released with this apology?
Some women were left infertile for life....
But they said they were "sorry," so... I guess... okay??
It should not surprise anyone that every empire-oriented and industrial nation in the world became fixated on colonialism and eugenics during the 19th and 20th centuries. Also see poor treatment of natives/tribal people by Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, the USSR, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, etc. etc. etc. This also happened in the pre-Columbian Americas (native vs. native), and between Africa's Bantu people versus Africans, etc.
The Europeans (and Japan) mostly paid penance for 50 to 75 years after WW2. They professed pacifism, offered apologies, and funded costly (if also counterproductive and misguided) reparations/equity systems. Still, primal tribal competition always happens.
Achilles said..
So women's reproductive competition is Zero Sum. The best way to ensure the success of their offspring is to sabotage the offspring of lower status women..
You can tell when women start to gain power. They start pushing shit like this sterilizing women and preventing "unwanted" babies..
now, for FUN! comparison contrast with leftie women's BIG FEAR!
The Handmaiden's Tail
in the fiction, low birth rates were caused by industrial pollution;
that is: Terrible Dirty MEN!!
and the Terrible Dirty MEN then enslave the few fertile women,
because, something.. The book Never explains how this works.
imagine, for FUN! a REAL feminist horror story; one that would scare the crap out of feminists..
Imagine, for FUN! a society that UNLIKE ours, doesn't let women decide not to get pregged. A society where MOST women Are fertile (unlike the fiction), and ALL women are OWNED by MEN!
A society with high birth rates, that takes over the ENTIRE WORLD;
first with violence, then just through birthrates.
THAT would be a truly scary tale for feminists..
And they could even keep the costumes from the original show, just would need to dye them black.
How come netflix hasn't made a show like THAT?
would it be TOO SCARY?
I can't wait for Trump to tweet about this.
The "Greenlandic" women were Inuits as can be seen in earlier stories. So this is a eugenic story. It fits into the pattern in which Indian Health Service in the US inserted IUDs or else just sterilized women in the 60s to 90s and the North Carolina Public Health Service sterilized black women from the Fifties on. There are no names in any of stories I could find so I can't assert a direct named eugenic connection as can be done in the case of the North Carolina sterilizations.
But population control was the main eugenic program of the American eugenics society from the Fifties to the year 2000. They then saw the figures on the European birth dearth and began to try to figure out how to raise the European birth rate while continuing to lower all others. But to maintain that level of hypocrisy and deceit is beyond all but a few select souls, candidates for inclusion in eugenic societies. People world-wide continued and continue to think that children were and are a threat to the future which must be contained by the strictest attention to prevention. The consequent birth crash is devastating economies and societies world-wide, though not ours as we still have several very large social groups which support families and children. The majority of voters in the oncoming generations in the US will come from these groups. This is an unstoppable force for social change and the Dems, who hate the family, simply cannot deal with even its earliest dawnings.
The tragedy of the wrecking of the lives of Greenland Inuit women is a vivid story which however is the same as the story of many a Karen in the US who thinks she chose for herself. She did; she believed the narrative and "chose"; the Inuit women never heard the narrative so the choice was made for them. But the consequences were the same for all. They are aging, childless women.
Meanwhile the US eugenics society has disbanded at last - around 2022. Afraid of Trump and what he represents even then? I think so. They're very good at spotting trends.
That sounds way too much like a major plot point in a recent US television series. IYKYK
Ørsted A/S (formerly DONG Energy)
Are we really thinking that energy companies became honest when they became "clean"?
Still, I must admit that much of the world still runs on dong energy. Luminous dongs illuminate the planet.
That’s it … we get Greenland. We’ll make it fertile again. #MGFA
They can give these women one hell of a lot of money. Nothing makes up for secretly sterilizing someone, but cash is better than a whole bunch of wussy words.
Oso Negro said...
@ Achilles - don’t forget the planet killing nesting instinct of adult females. And your third way is doomed to failure. Who will be the judge of said “moral development”?
You could only prove it through actions.
If a woman has at least 2 children and is married to their father then they could vote. As soon as they are not married both lose the right to vote.
A consistent pattern of earning money and paying taxes exceeding a certain amount could be another but we really should be connecting everything to married couples who produce at least replacement level offspring.
Denmark is gonna import a bunch of Africans into Greenland to make up for the population loss their eugenics plan caused. Reparations.
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