Marie Stopes
<p ><b>Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes</b> (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom" >British</a> author, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeobotanist" title="Palaeobotanist" class="mw-redirect" >palaeobotanist</a>, academic, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenicist" title="Eugenicist" class="mw-redirect" >eugenicist</a>, campaigner for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights" title="Women's rights" >women's rights</a>, and pioneer in the field of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control" title="Birth control" >birth control</a>. Her contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification were significant, and she was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester.
With her second husband, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Verdon_Roe" title="Humphrey Verdon Roe" >Humphrey Verdon Roe</a>, she founded the first birth-control clinic in Britain. Stopes edited the newsletter <i>Birth Control News</i> which gave explicit practical advice. Her <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_manual" title="Sex manual" >sex manual</a> <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married_Love" title="Married Love" >Married Love</a></i> was controversial and influential: it brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse. She opposed abortion, arguing that preventing conception was all that was needed.<sup id="cite_ref-Maude.2C_Aylmer_1933_42_1-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Stopes#cite_note-Maude.2C_Aylmer_1933_42-1" >[1]</a></sup></p>