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By James Brooks COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) \u2014 At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a contraceptive device by Danish doctors without her consent. She had become pregnant, and after doctors in the Greenlandic town of Maniitsoq terminated her pregnancy, they fitted her with an intrauterine contraceptive device, commonly known as an IUD, or coil. Now 52 and living in Denmark, Petersen recalled being told she had been fitted with the device before leaving the hospital. \u201cBecause of my age, I didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d she said tearfully. \u201cI kept it inside me and never talked about it.\u201d Petersen said her trauma led to \u201canger, depression, and too much to drink,” as she suppressed memories of her experiences and didn\u2019t speak about it with doctors. Later in life, after… <\/p>\n

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By James Brooks COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) \u2014 At age 13, Katrine Petersen was fitted with a contraceptive device by Danish doctors without her consent. She had become pregnant, and after doctors in the Greenlandic town of Maniitsoq terminated her pregnancy, they fitted her with an intrauterine contraceptive device, commonly known as an IUD, or coil. Now 52 and living in Denmark, Petersen recalled being told she had been fitted with the device before leaving the hospital. \u201cBecause of my age, I didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d she said tearfully. \u201cI kept it inside me and never talked about it.\u201d Petersen said her trauma led to \u201canger, depression, and too much to drink,” as she suppressed memories of her experiences and didn\u2019t speak about it with doctors. Later in life, after... <\/p>\n

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