Marie Stopes, Scottish Paleobotanist

Marie Carmichael Stopes (October 15, 1880 - October 2, 1958) was a Scottish author, paleobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant paleontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester. With her second husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice. Her sex manual Married Love (1918), which she wrote while legally a virgin, was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse. Stopes opposed abortion, arguing that the prevention of conception was all that was needed Her sex manual, Married Love, was controversial and influential. Her book, Wise Parenthood, was written before she'd become a parent. She opposed abortion, arguing that the prevention of conception was all that was needed. Her enthusiasm for eugenics and race improvement was in line with many intellectuals and public figures of the time. Stopes died in 1958, at the age of 77, from breast cancer. Bain News Service, undated

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