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Stopes

[ stohps ]

noun

  1. Marie Carmichael, 1880–1958, English scientist and birth control advocate.


Stopes

/ stəʊps /

noun

  1. StopesMarie Carmichael18801958FEnglishPOLITICS: birth control campaigner Marie Carmichael. 1880–1958, English pioneer of birth control, who established the first birth-control clinic in Britain (1921)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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A Marie Stopes spokesperson in Kenya told the BBC by email that the case had been a long and difficult ordeal for all those involved.

From BBC

Her contemporary, the British activist Marie Stopes, published a popular book to educate English women about sex and, in 1921, opened a London clinic for married women that provided care and even contraceptives.

The email was cited as evidence in the court hearing for Christian Concern’s legal challenge by a key witness, Kevin Duffy, a former staff member at Marie Stopes International who now supports Christian Concern’s work.

“What Marie Stopes would have done with U.S. government funding, at the pace it was going, was just going to be enormous,” he said, referring to MSI.

Stopes supported eugenics, the now-discredited movement to improve the human race through selective reproduction.

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