Birth Control Review

Birth Control Review was a lay magazine established and edited by Margaret Sanger in 1917, three years after her friend, Otto Bobsein, coined the term "birth control" to describe voluntary motherhood or the ability of a woman to space children "in keeping with a family's financial and health resources.

"[1] Sanger published the first issue while imprisoned with Ethel Byrne, her sister, and Fannie Mindell for giving contraceptives and instruction to poor women at the Brownsville Clinic in New York.

[4] The predecessor to the Birth Control Review was Sanger’s previous publication titled “The Woman Rebel,” a seven-issue periodical running March--October 1914.

The BCR urged its readers join groups such as American Birth Control League (which spanned 10 different branches and later became Planned Parenthood).

The Review also included art and fiction in the form of cartoons, poetry and short stories as well as case studies and first hand accounts from women, often lower-class people of color.