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🔤Marie Carmichael Stopes was a Scottish author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for women’s rights. She was an influential figure in the early family planning movement, helping to break down taboos on issues such as contraception.🔤🤩Far too often, marriage puts an end to a woman’s intellectual life. Marriage can never reach its full stature until women possess as much intellectual freedom and freedom of opportunity within it as do their partners.🤩
🦪One of the youngest people in the UK to get a D.Sc., and also earned a Ph.D. in palaeobotany.
🤍Was the first woman lecturer at the University of Manchester.
🍽️Took part in a scientific mission to Japan (1907), studying fossil plants in coal mines.
🌟 Published
Married Love — 1918 (advocated marriage equality and gave frank advice on contraception and sexual relationships).
💗In 1921, she opened
the UK’s first family planning clinic in Holloway, London.(initially
not allowed to give contraception to married women without a doctor's approval — a restriction she fought against.)
🖤In 1930, she played a role in forming
the National Birth Control Council and became a leading advocate for making contraception more freely available.
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