Marie Stopes

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant paleontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love (1918) was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse. Stopes publicly opposed abortion, arguing that the prevention of conception was all that was needed, though her actions in private were at odds with her public pronouncements.

Marie Stopes
Stopes in 1918
Born
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes

(1880-10-15)15 October 1880
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died2 October 1958(1958-10-02) (aged 77)
Dorking, Surrey, England
Education
Known forFamily planning, eugenics
Spouses
(m. 1911; ann. 1914)
    (19181935)
    ChildrenHarry Stopes-Roe
    Scientific career
    FieldsPalaeobotany
    InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester

    As a supporter of eugenics, one of her stated aims was "to furnish security from conception to those who are racially diseased". In reaction to this attitude, Marie Stopes International in 2020 changed its name to "MSI Reproductive Choices" with no other changes.

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