"Marie Stopes' birth control clinic was the beginning of what she saw as becoming a large national movement to transform British "racial stocks". The Mothers' Clinic provided free contraceptives for the willing, while she campaigned for Acts of Parliament to compulsorily sterilize the unwilling, and recommended the gold pin as an interim measure for the "racially negligent". In her eyes, people like the M'Neil's were "bad through inherent disease" and "racially diseased". Halliday Sutherland stood up to that. Quirky? Whacky? Zany? Actually, what's funny about that, or what's worthy of mockery, I have yet to discover."