 The existence of the clinic was finally announced to the public in December 1923, but this time there were no arrests or controversy, convincing the activists that, after ten years of progress, birth control had finally become widely accepted in America.The CRB was the first legal birth control clinic in the United States, and quickly grew into the leading contraceptive research center in the world.In 1928, the CRB was renamed to Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau.