Oh, well. To each his own. Typical Gordon Brown fiasco.
Posted on 09/15/2008 11:32:54 AM PDT by Publius804
Birth Control, Eugenics Advocate Honored With Postage Stamp
Monday, September 15, 2008
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor
CNSNews.com) – Britain’s Royal Mail is under fire over a decision to honor a birth control pioneer and eugenicist who shared views on racial purity with the Nazis.
Marie Stopes is one of six female pioneers commemorated in a series of postage stamps named “Women of Distinction,” which will be on sale from mid-October.
Pro-life campaigners are outraged at the decision, given the controversies surrounding Stopes, who died in 1958.
The Scottish-born Stopes in 1921 opened Britain’s first family planning clinic, which has grown into the world’s biggest private abortion provider, Marie Stopes International.
Critics say Stopes’ published views were racist and offensive. She referred to the “puny and utterly unsatisfactory” children of the poor: “Our race is weakened by an appallingly high percentage of unfit weaklings and diseased individuals.”
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Great Britain’s own Margaret Sanger.
Oh, well. To each his own. Typical Gordon Brown fiasco.
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