Lower thirds:

00:02 Report by Jack Parrock & Ralph Martin
00:11 Arnaq Knudsen-Frederiksen | Survivor of Forced Contraception
01:03 Najannguaq Hegelund | Sila360 NGO

Script:

This is Arnaq. She was just a teenager when she unwittingly became part of a program of forced birth control in Greenland. 

:10  SOT: Arnaq Knudsen-Frederiksen – 43-year-old victim of forced sterilisation 
"When I was 15 years old, I got pregnant but didn't want to follow through. I had an abortion at the hospital, where I was put to sleep. ((And)) I was under the impression that I was just having an abortion, but they inserted a contraceptive coil inside of me without my knowledge."

 :42 
 For decades,  Danish doctors forcibly inserted IUDs into thousands of Greenland's native Inuit women. Allegedly a response to fears of rapid population growth in the former colony. Many had lifelong health problems as a result.

:57 
Danish Prime Minister Mette Friedriksen has already issued an official statement of apology. 

1:02  SOT Najannguaq Hegelund- Chair, Sila360 
"It's refreshing to see an apology, because the women also need it... many of them weren't able to have children later in life and many had mental issues afterwards because of the trauma that it created."

1:26
But an apology isn't enough for some - 143 Greenlandic women are suing Denmark for over 5 and a half million Euros. Amaq says that in her case, her IUD caused nearly fatal complications during pregnancy - and left her unable to have children.

1:43   SOT: Arnaq Knudsen-Frederiksen – Victim of forced sterilisation 
"When they apologized, I felt like they were not talking about me. After the apology was given, I felt some of the trauma again."

1:54 
The legal case continues - but for Amaq and thousands of others, there's no ways to undo what was done to them in the name of population control.

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