Population controllers have been remarkably skilful in creating favourable narratives to support their campaigns and even more so in adapting to changing times and attitudes. A case in point is Dr Marie Stopes: over one-hundred years after opening a eugenic birth control clinic (on March 17 1921), and her campaigning for the compulsory sterilisation of…

Media Release: “The terrible truth about Marie Stopes’ eugenic project.”

I listened to Emma Barnett’s interview of Lesley Hall on BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday (if you access the interview, it starts at 1:52:00). One of Hall’s answers (at 1:59:09) caught my attention: Emma Barnett: “Do we know why she [Stopes] was so committed to offering as she puts it reproductive choices, was it anything…

Abortion charity Marie Stopes International (MSI) yesterday announced that it had changed its name to “MSI Reproductive Choices” . Media headlines included: “Abortion charity Marie Stopes changes its name to distance itself from links to eugenics and Nazis” (Daily Mail); “Marie Stopes charity changes name in break with campaigner’s view on eugenics” (The Guardian); “Abortion…

March 17, 2021 will mark the centenary of Britain’s first family planning clinic at 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, London. The Mothers’ Clinic gave poor and working-class women ready access to contraceptives for the first time. Funded by Dr. Marie Stopes and her second husband, Humphrey Roe, it provided instruction in birth control and supplied contraceptive…