(01-21-2026, 08:07 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: Was reading about Denmark's forced sterilization of Greenland native women.
Some old colonial thing from the 1800s ? Nah. Was going on into the NINETEEN-SEVENTIES. To make matters worse, Danish authorities have little interest in trying to set matters right ... if that is even possible.
Not so surprised the Greenlanders might want a new gig, Denmark appears to have screwed the pooch there.
Problem there mate is forced sterilization was happening in America at the same time.
Quote:Assisted by government assumptions that high Native American birth rates should be stemmed, and bolstered by lax law enforcement and inaccurate descriptions of medical procedures provided to women who thought they were being treated for things like appendicitis, a rash of forced sterilizations began in the 1960s. Even after legislation designed to protect women from forced sterilization was passed in 1974, the abusive sterilizations continued. Between 1970 and 1976 alone, between 25 and 50 percent of Native American women were sterilized.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-little-known...can-women/
We all have skeletons in our closets.