In the early 1970s he developed a soft, flexible tube, or cannula, for a device that was widely adopted in the United States and developing countries to perform early abortions. He freely demonstrated its use for doctors and other medical professionals and in 1972 was part of a humanitarian mission to terminate the pregnancies of 1,500 Bangladesh women and girls who had been raped by Pakistani soldiers. His cannula is still widely used today.
Some, though, criticized him over the second-trimester "super coil."
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Yeah, some weirdos thought that packing women's wombs full of plastic springs and leaving them with hemorrhages and infections wasn't a brilliant idea. And it was even worse in Bangladesh, where he was augmenting his "super coils" with balsa wood. What kind of nutcase uses MODEL AIRPLANE PARTS on women's bodies?
The same kind of nutcase who killed Joyce Johnson in 1955, doing an abortion on her with a NUTCRACKER.
This guy did bizarre experiments on women, like some B-movie mad scientists, but all the prochoicers are agog at his brilliance and "change agenty". He changed Joyce Johnson from a healthy young woman into a corpse. That kind of change we can do without, thank you.
I remember that. Karman was heavily criticized. I recall a Ms. Magazine article, I think it was, many years ago talking about some of the stuff he did.
I am glad you wrote in to remind me and other readers about this guy.
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