Month: March 2022
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Centenary: “Birth Control” published
One-hundred years ago today, on 27th March 1922, Dr Sutherland’s Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine Against the Neo-Malthusians was published by Harding & More. The passage on pages 101-2 drew a writ from Dr. Marie Stopes. The libel trial of Dr. Sutherland (and Mr. Vincent Waring of Harding & More as co-defendant) opened…
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Alive and killing
This guest post is by Ann Farmer, author of “Prophets and Priests: The Hidden Face of the Birth Control Movement” and “By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control and the Abortion Campaign“. In this article, Ann explains the malthusian and eugenic context in which the Stopes v Sutherland legal battle took place one-hundred years ago, and…