THE BIRTH CONTROL HERALD, New York, July, 1922

• Very rare reproductive rights publication
• Women's rights activist Mary Dennett

A very early newspaper on this controversial subject, this is the volume 1, number 1 issue.  The masthead notes: "Published By 'The Voluntary Parenthood League" with their motto: "The First Right of The Child Is The Right to Be Wanted" with the focus of the entire newspaper on birth control.
The front page has the: "Credo Of The Voluntary Parenthood League" and page 3 has: "Who And What The Voluntary Parenthood League Is".
Four pages, minor margin wear, nice condition.

Background: This premier July 1922 premiere issue (Volume 1, Number 1) of The Birth Control Herald is an exceptionally rare and historically significant artifact from the early American reproductive rights movement. Published in New York by Mary Ware Dennett’s Voluntary Parenthood League (VPL), this rare four-page publication represents a distinct ideological strain of 1920s activism that framed family planning as a fundamental civil liberty, boldly blazoning its core motto on the masthead: "The First Right of The Child Is The Right to Be Wanted." Front-page content centers on the VPL's explicit manifesto—the "Credo Of The Voluntary Parenthood League"—while page three features an organizational breakdown outlining their campaign to repeal federal Comstock laws that classified contraceptive information as illegal obscenity. Because this short-lived publication directly challenged strict anti-obscenity censorship during an era of intense government suppression, surviving Vol. 1, No. 1 copies are vanishingly scarce today, making it a pivotal primary document that captures the historic legal and philosophical rift between Dennett’s free-speech advocacy and Margaret Sanger's physician-led medical movement.