By 1924, the American Birth Control League had 27,500 members, with ten branches maintained in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Colorado, and the Canadian province of British Columbia.
[5] The ABCL was founded on the following principles, here excerpted from Margaret Sanger's The Pivot of Civilization: We hold that children should be
[6]At its founding, the ABCL announced the following purposes: Margaret Sanger listed the following aims of the organization in the appendix of her book The Pivot of Civilization:[6] In 1921, the ABCL organized the First American Birth Control Conference at New York City, November 11–18, 1921.
The ABCL arranged the holding of the Sixth International Birth Control Congress in the United States in 1925.
The ABCL published leaflets, pamphlets, books, and a monthly missal named Birth Control Review.