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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Marie Stopes' "Mother's Clinic"
Description: Marie Stopes’ “Mother’s Clinic” opened its doors in Holloway, on March 17th, 1826. Stopes was a trailblazer, her birth control clinic providing working-class women with access to contraception and advice for the first time. However, her organisation's full name - "The Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress" - reveals her disturbing underlying belief in selective breeding for racial progress; a commitment that only strengthened as time went on, and she corresponded with Hitler.In this episode, The Retrospectors consider Stopes’s pioneering work on female desire and sexual hea...