Appalling treatment of Greenland women

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This is awful, continued until fairly recently and has only just come to light.

What kind of nation forcibly sterilises girls as young as 12 to cut welfare bills? https://mol.im/a/12738369 via https://dailym.ai/android

Lots of people were involved. How did any think it was acceptable.

The article says: pregnancy prevention actions used on Greenland girls and women until 1991.

Saying awful things happened to women elsewhere is no argument. (And why? Could it be a common factor is men who don't see to value women.)

I agree it says more about the fact the men have (and still do) treat women abysmally. Human beings are capable of horrible cruelty at times. Things may be improving but there is a long way to go.

Things may be improving but there is a long way to go.

But are they? Five or so years ago I might had agreed. However putting men into women's prisons, the level of male entitlement that does not see a problem with men demanding access to women's sport, and other protected spaces, and even things like Epstein and the fact that some women were named, but virtually no men. I am not sure that male behaviour and attitudes have changed, and indeed with greater access to porn and to internet influencers, I think we have even more reason to worry about the younger generation.

Yes, this is awful and the women should win massive payments in a court of law.

Sadly, this was common practise: the Roma, the inuit, the sami, any minority or native population has experienced this.

I applaud the Brave women for going public with this and to take Denmark to task for it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gave-birth-control-to-ethiopian-jews-without-their-consent-8468800.html

On a similar note did anyone come across this story?

I didn't hula That's also absolutely awful.

Yes, in Canada , US, Australia - Indigenous women and women with disabilities, and in the US Black Women, have endured forced sterilisation - not that far in the past. I have little doubt it happened in other western countries too.

It’s been written about in major media sources, including The Guardian, over the years. A quick google of the Guardian and forced sterilisation will bring up articles involving all three countries I’ve mentioned above, as well as Chile, China and former colonised country - India, on just the first page.

It's a very strange world where the most radical champions of women's rights within the media is DM. But Guardian has a recent history of strong, barely covert misogyny. A classic way to undermine women's rights is just not to draw any attention to them.

I haven’t read the whole of the linked articles but enough…😕

Having said that, I think the Guardian has actually covered this in the past?

I have also felt disquiet around the treatment of women who have learning disabilities. In the mid nineties I was doing an internship and remember support workers talking about a young woman who was quite sexually active with different men so would be taken for a contraceptive jab every few months. Where’s the line between facilitating a safe sex-life and facilitating exploitation of a vulnerable woman?

https://www.dw.com/en/forcibly-sterilized-for-being-afro-german-children-of-shame/a-56175531
Man's inhumanity towards each other.

It's the fact that the girls didn't even know they had a coil.

Normally a coil needs to be changed after a few years.

Any complications from the coil. If it mo Ed,or caused a rupture. Or caused vaginally infections or pain/ pelvic infections. They wouldn't have been aware of the possibility of this. None of it would have been treated. None of the infections.

And that would have led to infertility.

Coils that should have been removed after a certain time would have been left in for over 30 years. Causing longterm health issues.

Last year, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who also holds the health portfolio, warned that illegal immigrants from Africa “threaten our existence as a Jewish and democratic state”.

Who could he be talking about?

The people from Ethiopia were Jewish.

It never fails to horrify me how women get treated.

I notice they never thought it OK give the boys vasectomies.