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Marie Stopes
noun
birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
Syn: ↑Stopes, ↑Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
Instance Hypernyms: ↑birth-control campaigner, ↑birth-control reformer

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Marie Stopes [Marie Stopes]
(1880–1958) a Scottish scientist who was one of the first people to write and teach people about sex and ↑contraception (= ways of preventing a woman from becoming pregnant). She wrote two important books on the subject in 1918, Married Love and Wise Parenthood. They were both extremely popular and successful, although she was criticized at the time by the Church and the medical profession.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.