the country s congress. greenland has been rocked by a scandal revealing a danish campaign to curb its growing inuit population from the mid 1960s to late 1970s. now being officially investigated, about 11,500 women had an intrauterine device, commonly known as coil, inserted often against their will. bbc 100 women goes to the heart of the scandal, meeting women who ve begun piecing together reasons behind physical and mental trauma that they d endured for decades in silence. awarning, you may find details in elaine jung s report distressing. thousands jung s report distressing. of women in greenland are thousands of women in greenland are looking for answers. translation: are looking for answers. translation: , ., translation: every time i would aet m translation: every time i would get my parent translation: every time i would get my parent and translation: every time i would get my parent and i translation: every time i would
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i could not understand how i already had a call in me. she believes that when she had an abortion at the age of 16 in 2004, those involved in the procedure must have inserted the coil without her consent. the greenlandic and danish governments have launched an independent investigation into a danish birth control scandal. at least 4500 women had an iud fitted between the mid 60s and early 705, often as young girls without consent from them or their parents. this woman was one of them. i was maybe 13 years old when they gave me coil when it was put inside me. it felt like i was dead. the details of this dark chapter in their relationship only emerged this year. half the fertile population at the time were potentially affected. families quickly went from having
thousands of women in greenland are looking for answers. every time i would get my period and i didn t conceive i would cry every time. this woman recalls her struggle to conceive. desperate for a baby but needing a break she went to a doctor in 2009 to get a coil fitted, hoping it would ultimately boost her fertility. she wasn t expecting what happened next. when i went to the doctor s room, there were two doctors and when they were about to put it in, they both began whispering to each other. and from that i could feel something was wrong. to her complete disbelief, the doctors told her she already had a coil and removed it to show her. i remember the tears just rolling down my cheeks and i told them that