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title: "‘No Victories Are Permanent,’ Recalls Film About Feminism’s Beginnings"
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# ‘No Victories Are Permanent,’ Recalls Film About Feminism’s Beginnings

RH Reality Check • November 20, 2014

> "She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry" heralds the amazing work of Chicago’s Jane Collective, a well-trained group of laywomen who performed approximately 11,000 abortions between 1969 and 1973; the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, which first published "Our Bodies, Ourselves" as a newsprint pamphlet in 1971; and the intrepid organizing that pushed the Supreme Court to issue its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

  
**Read the full story:** [‘No Victories Are Permanent,’ Recalls Film About Feminism’s Beginnings](http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/11/20/victories-permanent-recalls-film-feminisms-beginnings/ "‘No Victories Are Permanent,’ Recalls Film About Feminism’s Beginnings") by Eleanor J. Bader[Read the full article ](http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/11/20/victories-permanent-recalls-film-feminisms-beginnings/)

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