Danish government will compensate women for involuntary birth control campaign

The Danish government will compensate Greenlandic women subjected to a 25-year-long involuntary birth control campaign. Reuters reports that thousands of women and girls were fitted with IUDs between 1966 and 1991 without their knowledge or consent. The agreement calls for an estimated 4,500 women in Greenland — a semiautonomous territory of Denmark — to receive the U.S. equivalent of almost $47,000. Reuters notes that “this marked another step in Denmark’s accelerated efforts to repair ties with Greenland” since President Trump began talking about taking control of the country shortly after his election in 2024.