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Marie Stopes House in Whitfield Street near Tottenham Court Road was Britain s first family planning clinic after moving from its initial location in Holloway in 1925. / Kim Traynor, Wikimedia Britain’s first birth control clinic was founded on March 17, 1921. Marie Stopes International, the abortion charity named after the founder of the clinic, marked the centenary four months ago when it changed its name to “MSI Reproductive Choices”. While it did this to disassociate itself from the group’s eugenic origins, it is doubtful if a mere name change can exorcise its history. One hundred years ago, today, on March 17, 1921, Dr Marie Stopes and her husband, Humphrey Roe, opened the Mothers’ Clinic at 61 Marlborough Road in Holloway, London. It was the first birth control clinic in the British Empire.

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