He helped develop the device most often used for surgical abortions. He also spent more than half a century promoting women’s reproductive health in developing countries.
Malcolm Potts, a physician, reproductive scientist and contraceptive evangelist who helped develop and promote the device most frequently used to perform surgical abortions, and who spent more than half a century directing programs that provide reproductive health services to women in developing countries, died on April 25 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 90.
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