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A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s

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  1. unkz
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    Canada and the US also engaged in this kind of practice, and the Roma have been subjected to it in Europe....

    Canada and the US also engaged in this kind of practice, and the Roma have been subjected to it in Europe.

    Thousands of Indigenous Canadian women over the past seven decades were coercively sterilized, in line with eugenics legislation that deemed them inferior.

    In 1976, the U.S. found that forced sterilizations happened in at least one-third of the regions where the government provided health services to Native Americans.

    In Europe, forced sterilizations affected more than 90,000 Roma women in past decades in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria.

    https://apnews.com/article/canada-indigenous-women-sterilization-apology-reparations-ebcacc0f27b8d4c12d8690718202531d#

    China is currently doing this at mass scale to the Uyghur.

    “Documents from 2019 reveal plans for a campaign of mass female sterilization … Xinjiang planned to subject at least 80 percent of women of childbearing age in the rural southern four minority prefectures to intrusive birth prevention surgeries (IUDs or sterilizations), with actual shares likely being much higher.”

    https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22311356/china-uyghur-birthrate-sterilization-genocide#

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  2. boxer_dogs_dance
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    This issue is not unique to Denmark. The US Supreme Court case Relf v Weinberger is about government involuntary sterilization programs

    This issue is not unique to Denmark.

    The US Supreme Court case Relf v Weinberger is about government involuntary sterilization programs

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