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February 20, 2013

Dr. Billings helped develop widely used method of NFP

Drs. Evelyn and John Billings are pictured in the garden of their home in Melbourne, Australia, in this 2004 file photo. Evelyn Billings, who with her husband pioneered a revolutionary church-backed method for couples to avoid or achieve conception, died February 16 after a short illness.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Dr. Evelyn Billings, who with her husband, John, pioneered research that led them to develop a form of natural family planning supported by the Catholic Church, died Feb. 16 after a short illness. She was 95.

Published in International