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.

4:5 – “Man formerer sig bare”

Arne Øland er i 1975 lærer i Tasiusaq, og han har et problem: Han er bekymret for, at pigerne skal blive gravide, mens de bor på skolen. Men hans ven, der er læge, har en løsning: De får allesammen spiral, selvom de kun er 14-15 år. Men måtte de danske læger lægge spiraler op uden samtykke fra pigerne eller deres forældre? Var det, der foregik i Grønland ulovligt?

Arne Øland is a teacher in Tasiusaq in 1975, and he has a problem: He is worried that the girls will get pregnant while they live at the school. But his friend, who is a doctor, has a solution: They all get IUDs, even if they are only 14-15 years old. But did the Danish doctors have to install IUDs without the consent of the girls or their parents? Was what was happening in Greenland illegal?

Tilrettelæggelse: Anne Pilegaard Petersen og Celine Klint.

Lyddesign: Tobias Ingemann.

Redaktør: Rune Sparre Geertsen.

Produceret for DR af MonoMono.

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