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.
5:5 – De børn, vi aldrig fik
Når Elisibanguak Jeremiassen i dag træder ind ad døren til et hospital, vælter følelserne op i hende. Det minder hende om den voldsomme oplevelse på briksen, da hun fik spiral som 13-årig. Og så er der alle de spontane aborter, hun oplevede senere, hvor hun, ligesom flere af de andre kvinder, har haft svært ved at blive mor. Spiralkampagnen har haft store konsekvenser for mange af de grønlandske kvinder, der blev en del af den. Men var hensigten kun at passe på pigerne, eller handlede det også om kroner og øre for den danske stat?
When Elisibanguak Jeremiassen steps through the door of a hospital today, emotions well up in her. It reminds her of the violent experience on the bench when she got an IUD as a 13-year-old. And then there are all the spontaneous abortions she experienced later, where she, like several of the other women, has had difficulty becoming a mother. The spiral campaign has had major consequences for many of the Greenlandic women who became part of it. But was the intention only to look after the girls, or was it also about kroner and øre for the Danish state?
Tilrettelæggelse: Anne Pilegaard Petersen og Celine Klint.
Lyddesign: Tobias Ingemann.
Redaktør: Rune Sparre Geertsen.
Produceret for DR af MonoMono.
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