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    Yale student has multiple abortions in the name of art



    Yale senior Aliza Schvarts has just possibly created the most controversial senior thesis ever: According to The Yale Daily News, it's "a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself 'as often as possible' while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process."

    In her defense, Schvarts claims that her goal was "to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body." Still, fellow students who sit on both sides of the abortion debate are shocked, and conservative Pro-lifers are already using her as an example of reckless abortion.

    One member of a campus pro-life group, Jonathan Serrato, put it this way: "I feel that she's manipulating life for the benefit of her art, and I definitely don't support it," Serrato said. "I think it's morally wrong."

    What do you think? Does part of our right to choose include manipulating the human body in such a way for art's sake? Or has she taken advantage of this right in an unethical way?

    THIS JUST IN:

    Apparently, everyone has been getting into a big tizzy for nothing. Yale just issued the following statement:

    "Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages. The entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman's body.

    She is an artist and has the right to express herself through performance art. Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns."

    Holy smokes, she really had us going there. Sorry but um, wasn't April Fool's Day like, a few weeks ago?

    YET ANOTHER UPDATE:

    Ooookkaaayyy, now Schvarts is protesting Yale's latest statement and claims that she did inject herself with semen and induce a miscarriage after all... Hmm. Wonder if they are trying to spin the negative publicity?

    To read a student's perspective, see "College confessional: A Yale student reacts to the abortion art scandal."

     

    275 comments

    • Just Nina  •  8 months ago
      i believe women have the choice to get an abortion or not if the baby is an acccident or rape or somthing, but doing it over and over on purpose cannot be healthy and cannot be called art.
    • Just Nina  •  8 months ago
      i believe women have the choice to get an abortion or not if the baby is an acccident or rape or somthing, but doing it over and over on purpose cannot be healthy and cannot be called art.
    • princess_bubble_wrap  •  4 years 1 month ago
      there are better ways to show the function of the female body..this was tasteless..myself and not a soul i know would enjoy this type of "art"..look up miscarriage..it says spontaneous abortion..hers for the sake of "art" was not spontaneous but premeditated
    • A Yahoo! User  •  4 years 1 month ago
      inducing a miscarriage is inducing a miscarriage. having gone through one myself, I know the pain it causes.

      and i agree with the numerous postings: killing babies is NOT art.
    • D  •  4 years 1 month ago
      She probably got what she wanted by doing this... media attention.
    • Kizzo  •  4 years 1 month ago
      i didnt know that a person would put their own life in jeopardy for the sake of art, let alone a senior thesis.
      hopefully, her 'art' will not allow her to have children when she is hopefull more mentally and emotionally mature...
    • Alice  •  4 years 1 month ago
      I think this is an insult to woman who are unable to conceive.
    • Sheila  •  4 years 1 month ago
      She's clever to get the "world's" attention. I just hope that she won't try to do it for art's sake. I guess she knows what she's doing and that she won't do unethical things. Hats off to you, you really caught me through such an interesting topic.
    • JohnR  •  4 years 1 month ago
      So am I the only one who thinks this chick is freaking awesome? She can't buy anything from the non-existent proceeds of her work. The sacrifice that she has made in this opus is beyond measure. She has been to the other side and there is absolutely no coming back. Does anyone think that she isn't aware of the depth of meaning for what she has done? I refuse to believe it. I am in awe.
    • Jennifer  •  4 years 1 month ago
      She is playing G-d and that is a dangerous thing to do.
    • Amanda J  •  4 years 1 month ago
      There are many of us here that feels like she did the wrong thing. She evidentally did not take into account that even if it was "fiction" that there are left wingers out there that could get her for her actions or "art project" If I were her, I would change my name and move to another part of the country. Just look at the abortion doctors that get shot in the name of "morality" She did not think this through when she started this project
    • wan  •  4 years 1 month ago
      this whole experiment thing is just 'funny' to me...how pathetically interesting when a human being doesn't know how to show appreciation towards life yet destroying life....
    • Marcus  •  4 years 1 month ago
      Did this girl even think about all the women that can't have children (with no CHOICE).
    • Beth  •  4 years 1 month ago
      Wow, there is a part of me that is intrigued by what she is doing, but then there is the other part of me that is appauled. Then I have to remember that it's her body to do with what she wants. I have to honestly say I am interested to see her work and it's effect it has on people.
    • T or Tina  •  4 years 1 month ago
      What the ? ! that's terrible!!!! What is happening to our country & our kids?
    • Emerald Eyes  •  4 years 1 month ago
      She apparently didn't even umpregnate herself, and created the whole thing in her mushy head. It it hardly "art", and being an artist myself, have seen a lot of wierd things, and people who claim to be creative. Most of them work harder at what they think is"being an artist", than actually get involved in the creative process.
      Yale ought to expell her for lack of grey matter.
    • Roussel H  •  4 years 1 month ago
      Wow if this was a bunch of fake pregnancies and abortions, I wouldnt care but wow its not! and they cant say that it wasnt alive because after 1 week the fetus starts to develope a heart and after 2 weeks its herat is beating
    • ryan  •  4 years 1 month ago
      Hmm... these are the kind of people that go to Yale? Nice to know what Yale has to offer, spending all that money to go there and all... Everyone, let's give it up for our leaders of tomorrow! The days we're living in, I tell ya...
    • ShelleyG  •  4 years 1 month ago
      For those who are saying "didn't you read the full article?" Yes, we did. The girl in question wanted to see our reactions, and so we are giving them. The experiment in question, done for art, gets the reaction from most of us as being reckless and morally reprehensible.
    • Jane  •  4 years 1 month ago
      I just hope her parents are proud of her........i'm sure they are completely and utterly underwhelmed, that they spent 20 years putting money into a college fund, for her to do that with it!!!!

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