4 December 2025
Amnesty International
Reacting to today’s vote by the Faroese parliament (the ‘Lagtinget’/‘Løgting’) to amend the law to permit access to abortion on request up until the end of the twelfth week of pregnancy, Turið Maria, Director of Amnesty International Faroe Islands said:
“Today’s vote amending the Faroe Islands’ deeply outdated and restrictive abortion law is an important step towards ensuring the provision of safe and legal abortion.
Thomson Reuters
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Denmark’s prime minister apologized in person on Wednesday to women who were victims of a decades-long involuntary birth control campaign, which has left islanders with deep scars and strained relations with their former colonial power.
Thousands of women and girls as young as 12 were fitted with intrauterine devices without their knowledge or consent between 1966 and 1991, the year Greenland was given authority over its healthcare system.
24 September
by Thea Jürgensen
The European Union is based on key values such as freedom and equality. These values should apply to every citizen, no matter the gender. Even though it’s 2025 and men and women should have the same rights, there is still some work to be done to make sure that everyone is free and equal.
Women across Europe are still fighting for their reproductive rights and access to legal abortions. The absence of access to safe abortions services contributes to women being forced into motherhood or losing their lives due to being denied the procedure. However, European countries have adopted different approaches in this regard.
Continued; https://www.treffpunkteuropa.de/the-fight-for-safe-and-legal-abortions-in-the-eu-remains?lang=fr
By The Associated Press
September 09, 2025
COPENHAGEN, Denmark— More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, reported that they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date back to the 1960s, according to an independent investigation’s findings released Tuesday.
The Inuit victims, many of them teenagers at the time, were either fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices, known as IUDs or coils, or given a hormonal birth control injection. They were not told details about the procedure, or did not give their consent.
By The Associated Press
Aug 27, 2025
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark and Greenland on Wednesday officially apologized for their roles in the historic mistreatment of Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women, including forced contraception, in cases that date back to the 1960s.
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the prime minister of Greenland, said the issue represented “a dark chapter in our history.” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that although the past could not be changed, “we can take responsibility.”
Nearly 150 Inuit women last year sued Denmark and filed compensation claims against its health ministry, saying Danish health authorities violated their human rights when they fitted them with intrauterine contraceptive devices, known as IUDs or coils.
Continued: https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-forced-contraception-inuit-apology-38f6770fe8c4064dc8cece7d9498b2f4
Ritzau/The Local - news@thelocal.dk
24 Apr, 2025
Denmark’s parliament on Thursday adopted a proposal to raise the abortion limit from 12 to 18 weeks in a vote which caused at least one lawmaker to break with his own party.
The bill was tabled by Minister for the Interior and Health Sophie Løhde of the Liberal (Venstre) party, who described it ahead of Thursday’s vote as a “huge victory” for women in Denmark.
Continued: https://www.thelocal.dk/20250424/denmark-raises-abortion-limit-from-12-to-18-weeks
By Jan M. Olsen, The Associated Press
May 3, 2024
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s government said Friday it is relaxing its restrictions on abortion for the first time in 50 years to make it legal for women to terminate pregnancies up to the 18th week from the previous 12th week.
Officials said the law will also be changed to allow girls between 15 and 17 years old to have an abortion without parental consent.
By Jan M. Olsen, The Associated Press
Mar 4, 2024
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly 43 million kroner ($6.3 million), their lawyer said Monday.
The 143 Inuit women say Danish health authorities violated their human rights when they fitted them with the devices, commonly known as coils. Some of the women — including many who were teenagers at the time — were not aware of what happened or did not consent to the intervention.
The age limit for abortion should be lowered from 18 to 15, says the Danish government. According to critics, this proposal drives parents to the sidelines. "Parents have to be involved."
30-05-2023
CNE.news
It has been fifty years since Denmark legalised abortion. And on that 50th anniversary, Marie Bjerre, the Minister for Equality, announced that the age limit for abortion without parental consent would be lowered from 18 to 15. "The government wants young women to be able to decide over their own bodies and lives. They must be able to make the choice themselves about whether to have an abortion."
Various people welcomed Bjerre's statement. Charlotte Wilken-Jensen, a chief physician at an obstetrics department, believes that it is a "crazy good idea": "We have a society where the sexual minimum age is 15, and to imagine that young people, who can have sex with each other quite legitimately, cannot also have the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, does not add up."
Continued: https://cne.news/article/3124-danish-teenager-soon-can-go-for-abortion-at-15
Abortion has been high up the agenda worldwide for years now. Therefore, the Danish Ethics Council will now review the current abortion limit in the country.
12-12-2022
CNE.news
Currently, women can get an abortion up to 12 weeks, making Denmark one of the most restrictive time limits for abortion in Western Europe. The Danish abortion limit was set over 50 years ago. The Ethics Council has not looked at the abortion rules since 2007, and now it is time for a review, the Council believes. This reports the Christian Danish daily Kristeligt Dagblad.
The Council will hold discussions on the subject with health and ethical experts. According to Kristeligt Dagblad, everything is at stake. "The recommendation can thus end up in a recommendation for a more restrictive, more lenient or the same time limit as now."
Continued: https://cne.news/artikel/2197-denmark-to-review-its-abortion-limits
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