18+: Marie Stopes opened "Mothers' Clinic" in London in 1921…

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Did you know? Marie Stopes opened "Mothers' Clinic" in London in 1921 — the first birth-control clinic in the United Kingdom. She worked against church and medical resistance; her book "Married Love" (1918) had already sold 400,000 copies — a scandal and a breakthrough.

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Marie Stopes opened "Mothers' Clinic" in London in 1921 — the first birth-control clinic in the United Kingdom. She worked against church and medical resistance; her book "Married Love" (1918) had already sold 400,000 copies — a scandal and a breakthrough.

Marie Stopes opende in 1921 in Londen "Mothers' Clinic" — de eerste anticonceptiekliniek van het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Ze werkte tegen kerkelijke en medische tegenstand; haar boek "Married Love" (1918) had toen al 400.000 exemplaren verkocht — een schandaal én een doorbraak.

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