singer cap ~ vulcn cap — providing a form of contraception that Stopes, the early pro-contraception campaigner, in bringing this form of contraception to East London women.
The Marie Stopes clinic was openled in East London in 1928, the year that women won equal voting rights.
However; the motivation bringing contraception to areas like Tower Hamlets has not been simply a question of often it has been a matter of reac tionary that women breed too much. This was an element in Marie Stopes' East End activities.
Similarly. today, the drug Depo Provera — a powerful injectible con traceptive with a huge range of side eftects — is prescribed in areas like Tower Hamlets to control the size of working class and particularly Asian families.
Anti-DP campaigners in the area. notably Dr Wendy Savage, decided to look inore closely at the use of the drug. She found that less than 20 per cent of women on the drug had been properly informed of its side effects.
'20s, tionists were a common feature of the East End slums. Ian Mikardo, a local Labour MP. commented at a recent meeting in Tower Hamlets that when A backstreet abortionists in his street of a boy labour 30 houses. The frequent occurrence of blood-poisoning. gangrene, and death are testimony to the desperation women faced, unable laws. • better known as the • was a breakthrough in Marie was particularly for Too WORKINS class week. As of pregnancy. be become aw fend the clinic vice.
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DEFEND THE MILE END CLINIC Join the demonstration Saturday 26th January Ipm London Hospital followed by a rally at the Mile End Hospita