Marie Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 2 October 1958) was a
British author,
palaeobotanist, campaigner for
women's rights and pioneer in the field of
birth control. Stopes edited the newsletter
Birth Control News which gave anatomically explicit advice, and in addition to her enthusiasm for protests at places of worship this provoked protest from both the
Church of England and the
Roman Catholic Church. Her
sex manual Married Love, which was written, she claimed, while she was still a virgin, was controversial and influential.
Marie Stopes is an international abortion organisation that grew directly out of the early 20th century eugenics movement.
The modern organisation that bears her name,
Marie Stopes International, works in over 40 countries. In 2008, there were 560 centres, including 5 in Bolivia, 9 in the UK, 10 in Australia, 25 in Kenya, 24 in South Africa, 48 in Pakistan and over 100 in Bangladesh.
Work in family planning
Stopes opened the UK's first family planning clinic, the Mothers' Clinic at 61, Marlborough Road,
Holloway,
North London on 17 March 1921.
In 1925 the Mothers' Clinic moved to
Central London, where it remains to this day.
Stopes and her fellow family planning pioneers around the globe, like
Dora Russell, played a major role in breaking down
taboos about sex and increasing knowledge, pleasure and improved reproductive health. In 1930 the National Birth Control Council was formed.
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