In light of recent criticism targeting Planned Parenthood, this essay turns to Planned Parenthood's 1956 comic book, Escape from Fear, as a rich historical text for considering the implications underlying the negotiation of ideological positions in the context of an increasingly conservative society. In this case study, I contend that this Planned Parenthood comic book uses a generically familiar romance narrative in ways appealing to conservative readers and situating birth control as a normative part of the ideal American. However, beyond normalizing white, middle-class, heterosexual, married women's use of Planned Parenthood resources, this domestication of contraception also subtly masked the normalization of professionalized medicine within the. While contemporary readers should be wary of this narrative's medicalization of women's bodies, the comic book's subtle representation of expanded female autonomy and authority also signals how women's health organizations might consider advancing feminist politics in a contemporary conservative era.