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Stopes  (stps), Marie Carmichael 1880-1958.
British paleontologist and social reformer who opened England's first birth control clinic (1924) in London and later promoted family planning in the Far East.

Stopes [stəʊps]
n
(Biographies / Stopes, Marie Carmichael (1880-1958) F, English, POLITICS: birth control campaigner) Marie Carmichael. 1880-1958, English pioneer of birth control, who established the first birth-control clinic in Britain (1921)
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Noun1.Stopes - birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)


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Marie Stopes spokesman Tony Kerridge said: "We think there should be careful monitoring of how they use that caveat and that they provide a balanced education, otherwise it will put those children at a disadvantage.
Alesha Thomas died of toxic shock syndrome after she left a Marie Stopes clinic without a prescribed course of antibiotics.
AleshaMonique Cheri Thomas, 15, of Fartown, died five days after a termination at a Marie Stopes International centre in Leeds.
 
 
 
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