For years, Danish doctors inserted intrauterine devices in Greenlandic girls and women without their consent, part of a painful legacy of mistreatment.

Thousands of Greenlandic women and girls were fitted with IUDs without consent from 1966 to 1991.

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the prime minister of Greenland, called the issue “a dark chapter in our history,” while Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that although the past…