To journalister kommer på sporet en hidtil glemt “spiralkampagne”, hvor danske læger i Grønland opsatte spiral på kvinder og piger helt ned til 13 år. Det viser sig, at historien om spiralkampagnen vokser og vokser, jo mere man graver sig ned i den. Op mod halvdelen af de fødedygtige grønlandske kvinder og piger fik i slutningen af 1960’erne til midt 70’erne opsat spiral, mange tilsyneladende uden at give samtykke. Og det fik store konsekvenser for kvinderne og for Grønland. Men hvem satte kampagnen i gang og hvorfor?

(Produceret for DR af MonoMono)

‘The spiral campaign’ podcast

Two journalists track down a hitherto forgotten “IUD campaign”, where Danish doctors in Greenland installed IUDs on women and girls as young as 13. It turns out that the story of the spiral campaign grows and grows the more you dig into it. In the late 1960s to the mid-70s, up to half of the childbearing Greenlandic women and girls had IUDs installed, many apparently without consent. And that had major consequences for the women and for Greenland. But who started the campaign and why?

Produced for DR by MonoMono.

1:5 – 4500 spiraler

Efter en skolelægeundersøgelse bliver Naja Lyberth bedt om at tage op til lægen for at få lagt spiral. Naja er på det her tidspunkt kun omkring 14 år. Hun er en ud af tusindvis af grønlandske kvinder og piger helt ned i folkeskolealderen, der får opsat spiral af danske læger, dengang Grønland er et dansk amt. Hvad skete der? Hvorfor får op mod halvdelen af de fertile grønlandske kvinder lagt spiral på få år?

After a school doctor’s examination, Naja Lyberth is asked to go to the doctor to have an IUD inserted. Naja is only about 14 years old at this point. She is one of thousands of Greenlandic women and girls down to primary school age who have an IUD inserted by Danish doctors, when Greenland was a Danish county. What happened? Why do up to half of the fertile Greenlandic women have an IUD inserted in a few years?

Tilrettelæggelse: Anne Pilegaard Petersen og Celine Klint.

Lyddesign: Tobias Ingemann.

Redaktør: Rune Sparre Geertsen.

Produceret for DR af MonoMono.

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