Word: karman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...procedure itself is not new. Doctors have used a similar technique to obtain samples of uterine tissue for 50 years. Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist, pioneered it as a less painful abortion technique ten years ago. Militant Women's Liberationists have been using menstrual extraction in small "selfhelp" clinics for more than a year as a means of preventing "male control" over their bodies...
...cervix, inserting a metal tube attached to a small vacuum pump and drawing off the fetal matter into a bottle. Discomfort during the five-minute operation, which often includes a quick curettage, is minimal. Pain is all but eliminated in a refinement of vacuum aspiration developed by Harvey Karman, a Los Angeles psychologist: for pregnancies of less than ten weeks' duration, doctors use a thin plastic tube that is smaller in diameter than the more commonly used cannula. This avoids the dilatation process entirely...