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First Family Planning clinic in U.K.
The first birth control clinic in Britain was opened by Marie Stopes and her husband in
Holloway on 17 March
1921. A framed inscription on the wall of the clinic ran as follows
This, the first Birth Control Clinic in the British Empire, was opened on the 17 March
1921, by Humphrey
Verdon Roe and his wife Marie Carmichael Stopes, in order to show by actual example what
might be done for
mothers and their children with no great difficulty, and what should be done all over the world
when once the
idea takes root in the public mind that motherhood should be voluntary and guided by the best
scientific
knowledge available.
The clinic is free to all, and is supported entirely by the two founders. Those who have
benefited by its help are
asked to hand on a knowledge of its existence to others and help to create a public opinion
which will force the
Ministry of Health to include a similar service in Ante-Natal and Welfare Centres already
supported by the
Government in every district.