Stopes

[stohps]

noun

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

Stopes

/ stəʊps /

noun

1. Marie Carmichael. 1880–1958, English pioneer of birth control, who established the first birth-control clinic in Britain (1921)

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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

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