One Dove - February 3, 2009

Marie Carmichael Stopes (October 15, 1880 – October 2, 1958) was a Scottish sexologist, eugenicist, and campaigner for women’s rights. A flamboyant and often arrogant figure who considered herself the best authority on the topics of love, marriage, sex, and birth control, Stopes was criticized during her lifetime for advancing ideas that were in sometimes outdated and not proper for all people.

Marie became interested in the subject of birth control after meeting Margaret Sanger, a birth-control campaigner from America. Sanger had converted to socialism and begun publishing her own newspaper where she argued in favor of birth control and abortion. The main theme of her articles was that “no woman can call herself free who doesn’t own and control her own body.” In 1915, when charged with publishing an “obscene and lewd article,” Margaret Sanger fled to Britain and while in London, met Marie Stopes.

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Paul Joseph Watson - September 23, 2008

A popular women’s magazine in the UK recently featured an article entitled, Young, Single and Sterilized, in which women in their 20’s discussed why they had undergone an operation to prevent them from ever having children. The article is little more than PR for a “women’s charity” called Marie Stopes International, an organization that carries out abortions and sterilizations and was founded by a Nazi eugenicist who advocated compulsory sterilization of non-whites and “those of bad character”.

The story appears in a weekly magazine called Love It (click for PDF enlargement). One of the women featured in the article, Chloe, explains why she decided to have herself sterilized at the age of just 20.

“By the time I was 18, I knew I was never going to change. I couldn’t imagine letting something take over my body and then my whole life.”

“I couldn’t even look at a baby without feeling uncomfortable.”

Following the sterilization procedure, Chloe celebrates the fact that “I’ve got a lifetime of going out ahead of me now,” presumably meaning going out, getting mindlessly drunk and having sex with random strangers, as is British culture, while not having to worry about the risk of pregnancy or the responsibility of looking after a child.

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September 6th, 2008 by Aurora

“the elite cannot go on giving the gifts of freedom, wealth and prosperity to the world if …all our gifts to you are to be swamped by an indiscriminate torrent of progeny. (W)e cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us.” (H.G. Wells)

Britain is introducing a new 50p stamp which will feature the face of Marie Stopes. The stamp comes out from 14 October 2008. By enshrining and honoring Stopes in this way, Britain announces to the world its priorities and values. So who is Marie Stopes?

Marie was born 15 October, 1880 to a privileged family. Both parents were university educated and spent much of their time traveling around Europe, satisfying her father’s interests in archeology and palaeontology. Her mother, Charlotte, was fashionably feminist. From this fertile ground of idle, educated aristocracy sprang one of the most perverse and amoral women of the 20th century, a eugenicist who advocated the sterilisation of poor women to promote the “welfare of the race”.

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