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Malcolm Potts
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Bixby Professor of Population and Family Planning, University of California, Berkeley. Coauthor of The Textbook of Contraceptive Practice and others.

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Blister pack of 28 oral contraceptive pills arranged in four rows, with 21 white active pills followed by 7 orange inactive pills. Arrows indicate the order for taking pills.
Birth control, the voluntary limiting of human reproduction, using such means as sexual abstinence, contraception, induced abortion, and surgical sterilization. It includes the spacing as well as the number of children in a family. Birth control encompasses the wide range of rational and irrational…
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