Abortions Right

Psychologist and abortions-right advocate Harvey Karman — who worked to make abortions affordable, safe and accessible. Died of a stroke on May 6 age 34 at Cottage hospital in Santa Barbara, California. Karmen helped to enforce the current law on abortion  that we know today, he also developed the movement of the human rights abortion. 

Karman became interested in abortion in the 1950s while conducting research as a graduate student at the University of California-Los Angeles  on the emotional aspects of the procedure. He established an abortion referral service while the procedure was banned in California and eventually began performing abortions. He later spent two-and-a-half years in prison for performing illegal abortions.

During his career, Karman also helped women obtain abortions in Mexico and traveled to Bangladesh to perform abortions for rape survivors and to train physicians to deliver the operation effectively.  In addition, Karman advocated for women’s rights and access to safe abortions in India and China. Karman was responsible for saving the lives of countless women throughout the world.

Although some would say that he used these women as guinea pigs to develop his techniques and to test out the coil which he had invented. 

Obituaries.

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 …

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Dawn Pugh