Month: March 2018
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Babies in the Right Place
“Babies in the Right Place” was the catch cry of Dr Marie Stopes’ Society for Constructive Birth Control (C.B.C.), but what did it actually mean? Three artifacts provide the best explanation in that they represent what the founder and President of the CBC, Marie Stopes, drew, wrote and said. They are: the logo from the…
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The steady evil
With these words, Dr Marie Stopes explained why she set up the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress in 1921 to support her Holloway Mothers’ Clinic. The activities of the Society included positive and negative eugenic measures. Positive included spacing babies so that the mother’s health could recover between confinements. Negative included campaigning for legislation…