A large number of women were unaware that they were wearing a contraceptive device. Read more at straitstimes.com.
      • average650@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        That’s helpful to know, but man, that’s hardly fair compensation for such a terrible thing.

        • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          10 months ago

          You don’t need to sue for hundreds of thousands when your country actually takes care of you

          • average650@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            10 months ago

            I wouldn’t say they were taken care of in this case…

            But regardless, that’s a hardly an amount that would prevent someone from trying to do this again.

  • timicin@lemmygrad.ml
    111·
    10 months ago

    You should add this at the beginning so that we can understand within one second:

    In the 60s and 70s, some 4,500 young Inuit had IUDs inserted without their consent or that of their families