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UK’s abortion chain Marie Stopes International (MSI) has announced a name change in an effort to distance itself from the eugenicist for whom it was named. According to a press release, Marie Stopes International will now do business under the moniker “MSI Reproductive Choices.” While the organization claimed the name change had been under review for some time, it pointed to “the events of the past year and the critical global conversations about race and diversity” which it said “reinforced to us that changing our name now is the right decision.” The move comes shortly after Planned Parenthood, the largest...

In the 1920s, a legal victory against the rising eugenic tide was won by a Catholic doctor over prominent birth control advocate Marie Stopes. While Stopes is lauded today as a feminist hero, the story of the eugenics libel trial has been largely overlooked. Marie Stopes in her laboratory in 1904. (Image via Wikipedia) Editor’s note: This is the first of two articles on the Stopes v. Sutherland libel trial. In 1923 in Britain, a Catholic doctor won an important victory in the battle against one of the most harmful ideologies of the 20th century: eugenics. The battle was fought...

British birth control pioneer and abortion advocate Marie Stopes, who has a chain of abortion clinics named after her: “Society allows the diseased, the racially negligent, the thriftless, the careless, the feebleminded, the very lowest and worst members of the community, to produce innumerable tens of thousands of stunted warped and inferior infants.” J Weeks Sex, Politics and Society (London: Longman, 1981) 190

FULL TITLE: Marie Stopes doctor and nurses 'bungled woman's abortion then sent her home despite symptoms of internal bleeding that killed her just hours later' A doctor and two nurses appeared in court today charged with the manslaughter of a pregnant woman who died from massive blood loss following a bungled abortion. Aisha Chithira, 32, had travelled from Dublin to a west London branch of the Marie Stopes clinic for the procedure on January 21, 2012 and collapsed hours later in a taxi in Slough, Berkshire. The cause of her death was given as 'extensive internal bleeding' following the abortion,...

UK gov’t funding Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes to tune of £9.4 million by Hilary White Wed Mar 23 4:39 PM EST LONDON, March 23, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This week, the UK government revealed that it is continuing to provide International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Marie Stopes International (MSI) with nearly £9.4 million to abort Britain’s own children and those of countries of the developing world. The questions from the House of Lords and Commons about government funding of IPPF and MSI came in the wake of scandals in the U.S., in which it was revealed that Planned Parenthood...

Woman Dies From Botched Abortion at Marie Stopes Clinic London, England -- As the Marie Stopes International abortion business begins running abortion ads on television in England tonight, news surfaces that a woman in India died from a botched legal abortion at an MSI abortion center. She is one of several women to have died recently in India from failed abortions. http://LifeNews.com/int1552.html

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...

LONDON, September 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) - Marie Stopes, the notorious early 20th century contraception campaigner, eugenicist and anti-Semite, did for Britain what Margaret Sanger did for the US:  preached the doctrines of eugenics and promoted contraception and sterilisation to achieve "racial hygiene." So successful was she at altering British society in favour of her eugenics doctrines, the British government has chosen her to be included in a "Women of Distinction" line of stamps. The Royal Mail announced this weekend that the face of Marie Stopes, who advocated the sterilisation of poor women to promote the "welfare of the...

LONDON, September 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Marie Stopes International is hosting a conference in London in October to promote abortion internationally. One of the aims of the Global Conference on Safe Abortion is to teach abortion advocates how to remove the last legal barriers to unrestricted abortion on demand in Britain. The website of Marie Stopes International says the conference's aim is to "build consensus and momentum around international efforts to reduce the unacceptable toll on women's health and lives caused by unsafe abortion." It is being timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the United Kingdom's 1967 Abortion...