Posted on 10/09/2018 6:21:56 PM PDT by Morgana
Kermit Gosnell, the abortionist currently on trial for murdering seven babies and a woman, is being portrayed as an aberration. “He is not typical,” writes Irin Carmon at Salon.com, “and there was, and has been, swift renunciation of his facility.”
I hope you’ll join me in congratulating the feminist left for renouncing a mass murderer. But as long as pro-choicers are calling Gosnell an outlier, it’s time to examine some of the historical circumstances surrounding his abortion mill, specifically those involving a man named Harvey Karman.
Karman was an abortionist and fake doctor who forged his medical credentials. He was convicted of a felony after he killed a mother when he attempted to abort her baby in a hotel room with a nutcracker. For that grotesque crime, he only served two-and-a-half years in prison; after that he’d become such a hero to the pro-abortion movement that he was pardoned by then- (and current) California Governor Jerry Brown.
Karman was obsessed with abortion and determined to make it as easy and economical as possible. He invented the Karman cannula, a suction device used widely today for first-trimester abortions. He then set out to revolutionize second-trimester abortions. The result was something he called the “super coil.”
Super coils were first tested in Bangladesh, where the International Planned Parenthood Federation flew Karman on a “humanitarian” mission to perform abortions on more than 1,500 women who had been raped by Pakistani soldiers. The mothers on whom Karman used the super coil suffered an enormous rate of complications.
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Do any of you remember this??? was back in the early 1970’s
The Mother’s Day Massacre in Philadelphia.
One trial of the super coil method took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 13 and 14, 1972. Fifteen women in their second trimester traveled from Chicago to Philadelphia, where Kermit Gosnell performed the abortions using Karman’s method. A public television crew from a station in New York City filmed the procedures at Karman’s invitation. Nine of the 15 had complications, three of those with major complications
Yet they did not yank his medical lic. back then!
Weirdly, the little I DID know, is what I'd heard from a RN in Phila, a Quaker pacifist for godsake, who got into abortion as an assistant and counselor because she wanted to work for a clinic that would be 'caring and compassionate,' the 'best in the profession,' not bad like Karman and Gosnell.
K & G are, of course, a nightmare vision from Hell. But my acquaintance, Phyllis, was deluded into thinking that what she and her 'caring' colleagues were doing, was better. She eventually had a prolife conversion and got out of the biz, but the power of delusion is strong. It is of the demons.
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