Birth Control News

Title

Birth Control News

Description

Subtitle: "The Stateman’s Newspaper"

Doughan calls The Birth Control News “thin and propagandist, but nevertheless the authentic voice of Marie Stopes, and hence essential reading.” Indeed, the periodical is highly biased in favour of a use of birth control to control populations and the size of families. She especially advocates to decrease the birth rates among the lower classes by sharing contraceptive techniques that Dr. Stopes claimed were already well-known among the upper class.

The periodical also offers a stark reminder of Stopes's enthusastic support of eugenics and the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress, which she founded. Particularly problematic are the articles that discuss "the unfit" and "defective" members of British society, which primarily encompasses the lower classes, the undereducated, and the unexmployed.

Publisher

Editor: Marie Carmichael Stopes

Date

1922-1946

Language

English

Format

Monthly, then quarterly, then monthly again

Creator

Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress

Collection Items

Birth Control News 1.1 (May 1922)
In this issue, Marie Stopes introduces Birth Control News with a report on the first meeting of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress, names "friends" and "foes of progress", and describes extreme cases in which one woman had…
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