Marie Stopes
Noun
Meaning
birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
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Examples
Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.
Keynes was a firm supporter of women's rights and in 1932 became vice-chairman of the Marie Stopes Society which provided birth control education.
“Marie Stopes and The English Birth Control Movement”.
In Nepal, the start of a national lockdown on 24 March immediately forced the closure of Marie Stopes clinics across the country.
Last week a British court upheld a ban on protests outside a London abortion clinic run by Marie Stopes UK.