Gillian Frank

The surprising history of a politically charged phrase.

Evangelicals started speaking out against legal abortion long before the late 1970s.

How 20th-century curriculum controversies foreshadowed this summer’s wave of legislation.

In name, 'girl watching' is long gone. In practice, the trend lives on.

The marketing of stewardesses’ bodies was long an integral part of airline marketing strategies.

A 1974 case gave the antiabortion movement a new playbook to whittle away abortion rights for poor women.

In the half-decade before Roe v. Wade, respected religious leaders participated in a nationwide struggle to make abortion more accessible.

On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.