Clinics drop Marie Stopes name over eugenics supporthttps://nypost.com/2020/11/17/clinics-drop-marie-stopes-name-over-eugenics-support/LONDON — One of Britain’s leading family planning organizations is changing its name to distance itself from the troubling views on eugenics and race of birth control pioneer Marie Stopes.
Marie Stopes International, which provides abortion and contraception services, said that starting Tuesday it will be known as MSI Reproductive Choices.
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Stopes supported eugenics, the now-discredited movement to improve the human race through selective reproduction. She opposed interracial marriage and advocated the sterilization of people considered unfit for parenthood.
England's Margaret Sanger. Social Darwinist racism and eugenics theories were Progressive orthodoxy in the '20s and '30s. While currently out of fashion, the legacy of such ideas linger in the placement of abortuaries. As for the name change,
an abortuary by any other name ...
