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Critics blast Brit stamp honoring ‘racist’ (Moldova.org)

British Royal Mail officials erred when they issued a stamp honoring a 1930s family planning pioneer accused of racism and Nazi sympathies, critics say. The subject of the stamp is Marie Stopes, best known for opening Britain’s first family planning clinic in 1921 and later hailed as a pioneer for women’s reproductive freedom. But in the 1930s, Stopes revealed herself as a supporter of eugenics, …

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