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Vivian Dowding (1892-1987) was a leading British Columbia activist who worked to improve birth control access for working class women. Kamloops-born Dowding traveled the back roads of British Columbia's Southern Interior in the 1930s to educate doctors about contraception and to help low-income women avoid unplanned pregnancy. Dowding operated in defiance of laws criminalizing birth control, which was not decriminalized until 1969. Dowding saw birth control access as a necessary step to women's liberation and to lifting low-income women out of poverty.

Category:1892 births Category:1987 deaths Category:People from Kamloops Category:Women educators Category:Women activists