British birth control campaigner and palaeobotanist (1880–1958)
For the modern organisation that was named after her, see MSI Reproductive Choices.
Marie Stopes
Stopes in 1918
Born
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
(1880-10-15)15 October 1880
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
2 October 1958(1958-10-02) (aged 77)
Dorking, Mole Valley, Surrey, England
Education
University of London (BSc, DSc)
University of Munich (PhD)
Known for
Family planning, eugenics
Spouses
Reginald Ruggles Gates
(m. 1911; ann. 1914)
Humphrey Verdon Roe
(1918–1935)
Children
Harry Stopes-Roe
Scientific career
Fields
Palaeobotany
Institutions
University of Manchester
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,[1] though her actions in private were at odds with her public pronouncements.[2]
She was a supporter of eugenics, and 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.[3]
^Maude, Aylmer (1933). Marie Stopes: Her Work and Play. John Bale & Sons and Danielsson. p. 42.
^Brand, Pauline. Birth Control Nursing in the Marie Stopes Mothers' Clinics 1921–1931. De Montfort University Leicester. p. 243. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
^"Abortion provider changes name over Marie Stopes eugenics link". BBC News. 17 November 2020.
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Sweden to be one of their brand ambassadors. In 2014 she was appointed by MarieStopes Tanzania to be the Ambassador of Family Planning Tanzania. In June 2015...
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