SCA has a selection of print and archival material that document the history of birth control in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, women’s reproductive health, and family planning. Collections include the organizational papers of the Parents' Information Bureau, a Kitchener-based clinic for family planning and birth control set up by A.R. Kaufman of the Kaufman Rubber Company, and records related to Marie Stopes, the founder of Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control, the world’s first birth control clinic.

In addition to documenting the early advancement of reproductive rights, SCA's collections support research about eugenics-informed rhetoric used to advance reproductive issues and advocacy in and outside of feminist circles. SCA also holds records and trial transcripts related to the trial of Dorothea Palmer, who was arrested in 1936 for advertising birth control to women in the Eastview neighbourhood of Ottawa.