Denmark compensates Greenlandic women subjected to a contraception program

Denmark's parliament passed legislation granting 300,000 kroner, or 46,758 dollars, to each Greenlandic woman affected by non-consensual contraception. The contraception was administered under a Danish birth-control program in the 1960s and 1970s. The payment is compensation. It is set per woman affected, not as one lump sum for a group.

Non-consensual means the program is described as having been carried out without the consent of the women affected. The decades named are the 1960s and 1970s. The parliament passing the law is the present-day act. The report does not recount individual medical files.

The sum is 300,000 kroner for each woman covered. The dollar equivalent given is 46,758. The report does not say how many women will receive the payment. A per-person figure without a headcount does not produce a total cost in this note.

Greenlandic women are the people eligible under the description. The program is identified as Danish. The legislature acting is Denmark's parliament. No implementing agency is named beyond that passage of legislation.

The law is a compensation statute. It is not described as a criminal conviction of individual doctors. No prison terms are attached. The remedy on record is the money amount for each affected woman.

The confirmed facts are the 300,000 kroner payment, the stated dollar equivalent, the group covered, the non-consensual character of the contraception program, and the decades in which it operated. A total budget is not stated. The number of women who qualify is not given.