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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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Canada and the US also engaged in this kind of practice, and the Roma have been subjected to it in Europe.
https://apnews.com/article/canada-indigenous-women-sterilization-apology-reparations-ebcacc0f27b8d4c12d8690718202531d#
China is currently doing this at mass scale to the Uyghur.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22311356/china-uyghur-birthrate-sterilization-genocide#
This issue is not unique to Denmark.
The US Supreme Court case Relf v Weinberger is about government involuntary sterilization programs