It started in 1969 as a booklet called Women and Their Bodies—a “radical primer on women’s health” that grew so popular so quickly that the group of women who’d written it soon incorporated as the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and rechristened a more in-depth version as Our Bodies, Ourselves. The book hit bestseller lists in 1979, “partially because it was a mainstay of college dorm rooms,” notes Robin Dougherty in a Boston Globe story about a special, updated version of the book being released for its 35 anniversary. Dougherty talks to executive director Judy Norsigian about putting together the new version: “Q: Anyone who read the book in the 1970s probably can’t get the police photo of Gerri Santoro, who bled to death in a motel room after a botched abortion, out of her head. . . . A: There was a big debate about leaving it in. The reason to leave it in is to remind young women that abortion wasn’t [always] legal. It’s for women who can’t appreciate that. It reminds you how desperate women feel when they can’t [go through with the pregnancy].”