ShortHand: Marie Stopes – Mother of Birth Control
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She revolutionised access to contraception, opened the UK’s first birth control clinic, and wrote a sex manual your great-grandma probably blushed over. But behind the progressive veneer, Marie Stopes had some seriously dodgy beliefs – like championing eugenics and sending poetry to Hitler (yeah, really).
In this episode, we dive into the complicated legacy of the woman who helped shape modern reproductive rights. Can we separate the feminist trailblazer from the toxic ideology? Gird your loins: this is the ShortHand.
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