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Jorge Villarreal, MD, a Colombian gynecologist and obstetrician who dedicated his career to helping women receive high quality abortion and other reproductive health services, died on Saturday, December 8, 2001. He was the founder of Oriéntame, a reproductive health center founded in 1977 in Bogota, Colombia. The center delivered a wide range of high quality services for the care of unwanted or unplanned pregnancies, as well as all other reproductive health services.
Quality of service was an obsession for Dr. Villarreal to the extent that the criteria approved at the Cairo and Beijing conferences to improve the quality of reproductive health services were...