“I know best”

I was delighted to see Exterminating Poverty featured in the Good and Prosper newsletter, which you can read here. As a subscriber to the Good & Prosper newsletter, I am familiar with the erudite and literary articles written by its founder, Sir Steven Wilkinson. You can view his work at the Good & Prosper website …

Exterminating Poverty or the poor?

Mark Sutherland will be giving a public talk entitled “Exterminating Poverty or the poor?” on Monday 26th April 2021 at 7:45 PM (UK time) via Zoom. Find out how to register by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emytGlHQlCg

Exterminating poverty or the poor? A Scottish doctor’s story.

On Monday 26th April 2021, at 7:45 pm, the Archdiocese of Edinburgh and St Andrews will host a talk (via Zoom) entitled Exterminating Poverty, or the Poor? A Scottish Doctor’s story. In it, Mark and Neil Sutherland will talk about their book, Exterminating Poverty: The true story of the eugenic plan to get rid of …

Six books that deal with the Stopes v Sutherland libel trial of 1923.

Whether you are researching for a university essay or just want to learn more about the legal battle between Dr. Marie Stopes and Dr. Halliday Sutherland, this list will help you understand the case (and the last one is the most essential of all of them!). “Marie Stopes Her Work and Her Play” by Aylmer …

The Truth About Marie Stopes’ Scientific Racism (Part 3)

In the first article I set out the evidence that demonstrated that the Mothers’ Clinic was a eugenic project that accorded with Marie Stopes’ scientific racism. In Part Two, I listed some of the techniques that obfuscate the evidence and the conclusions to be drawn from it. In this Third (and last) article, I speculate …

The truth about Marie Stopes’ scientific racism (Part 2)

In the previous article, I set out the evidence which showed that Marie Stopes established the Mothers’ Clinic to achieve her eugenic goals. Despite all of the evidence, you would never know it, because these aspects are frequently obfuscated. When researching Exterminating Poverty (with Neil Sutherland), we became familiar with the techniques used, and I …

The truth about Marie Stopes’ scientific racism (Part 1).

One of the key events in Exterminating Poverty: the true story of the eugenic plan to get rid of the poor and the Scottish doctor who fought against it occurred on on 17th March 1921. It was the day Marie Stopes and Humphrey Roe opened the Mothers’ Clinic in Holloway, London. For many years, the …

You don’t want to miss these five 2021 centenaries.

Five centenaries in the history of birth control that will be marked in 2021. Anniversaries are important — Centenaries more so, and not just because of the bigger number. They help you think about how things were 100-years ago. In some ways the passing of time obscures your view of events, but in others it …

Marie Stopes: “very little” to do with eugenics, according to expert

Back in November 2020, I listened to Emma Barnett’s interview of Lesley Hall on BBC Radio 5 Live. The last question and answer drew my attention: Emma Barnett: “Do we know why she [Stopes] was so committed to offering as she puts it reproductive choices, was it anything to do with eugenics?”Lesley Hall: “Very little… it was basically …