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First Family Planning clinic
The first birth control clinic in the world was opened in Holland in 1882 under the auspices of
the Nieuw
Malthusiaanschen Bond (the Dutch Malthusian League). The League was founded in 1881 -
and was immediately
opposed by the medical profession! Two doctors, however, joined the organisation in the early
days - Dr. de
Rooy (1881) and Dr. Aletta Jacobs (1882), the first woman to become medically qualified in
Holland. From 1883
Dr. Jacobs held a clinic twice a week to give advice on infant welfare to working-class
women. Soon she became
aware of the Mensinga Diaphragm and started giving birth control advice.