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Denmark’s Parenting Test Becomes the Latest Flashpoint in Greenland

The case of a young Greenlandic woman who was ruled incapable of keeping her baby has become the latest flashpoint with Denmark.

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Ivana Bronlund at her home in Hedehusene, Denmark, earlier this month. The government took her daughter away an hour after she was born.
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Denmark Forced Contraception on Greenlandic Girls, a Scathing Report Confirms

Danish doctors inserted intrauterine devices into thousands of women and girls in Greenland, often without their consent or knowledge, a scandal that has reinforced a legacy of colonial abuses.

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Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the prime minister of Greenland, and Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister of Denmark, at a news conference in April.
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