Earlier this month, I read A Sexual Revolution. The essay concerned the life of Marie Stopes and which contained some significant factual errors. It had been written by an unnamed author and published by UKEssays.com. The essay was prefaced with this statement: “The history essay below has been submitted to us by a student in order to help you…

Madeleine Simms delivered the 1975 Marie Stopes Memorial Lecture: The compulsory pregnancy lobby – then and now (Simms, M. (1975). Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 25, 709-19.) in which she made defamatory remarks about Dr Halliday Sutherland. She said: The League’s other enthusiasm was for fostering marriages “at the best age for reproduction.” To this…