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highplainsdem

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2. Thanks for the information!
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 10:05 PM
Jan 5

That's very sad about the Spiral case. I have found info

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5149662/

about a high teen pregnancy rate there, and Greenland has at times had one of the highest abortion rates among teenage girls in the world - more than 1 in 5 girls between the ages of 12 and 19 had an abortion in 2012, which is an extremely high rate of unwanted pregnancies. But no one should ever be forced to get an IUD or any other type of birth control.

More info here - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63863088

That says women in Greenland had been having an average of 7 children in the early 1960s, and forcing so many to have IUDs brought that birth rate down to 2.3 children.

The stories of young girls who were injured when they were given IUDs intended for grown women who'd had at least one child are so upsetting.

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