[garinda]

Originally Posted by polly

I imagine that Marie Stopes is commemorated (not necessarily celebrated) by the stamps because of the impact she had by introducing contraceptive services to the average person (women directly the whole population indirectly). I think her private life is irrelevant to this. She changed many peoples life with her pioneering work. End of story

Stopes may have pioneered birth control for working class women, but her advocation of eugenics in relation to her Nazi sympathies, and the resulting atrocities they carried out in that field, is very relevant.

It's like saying Hitler and Mussolini should be remembered respectively for building good roads, and making the trains run on time, rather than their hideous crimes against humanity.