Abortion provider Marie Stopes International is changing its name in a bid to distance itself from the family planning pioneer’s views on eugenics and race.

The charity will become known as MSI Reproductive Choices, a move it says was triggered in part by the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent debates on race and equality.

Marie Stopes founded the UK’s first birth control clinic in London in 1921, with her campaigning for family planning helping to transform the lives of women worldwide.

But her reputation has long been tarnished by her embrace of the eugenics movement, racist ideologies and her opposition to so-called inter-racial breeding.