The Nation reported on Dr. Pendergraft’s troubles in “Abortion on Trial” by Hillary Frey and Miranda Kennedy, June 18, 2001.
Historians have made much of the ways that the social protest movements of the 1960s unsettled the morals of the dominant culture, but it is often forgotten that activists themselves were sometimes jarred by the new sensibilities as well.
Twenty-seven years ago, Bella Abzug introduced the first comprehensive gay civil rights bill in the history of the Congress.