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Abortion as art? (Updated)
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This is perhaps one of the most disturbing stories I have read in some time. The Yale Daily News is reporting a senior art major who has chosen an "art" project that rivals the highly controversial "Piss Christ" in both it's controversy as well as it's stretching thin what passes as art.
This first paragraph of the story should sum it up for you:
Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, 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.
It almost seems criminal to me to intentionally impregnate oneself for the sole purpose of terminating pregnancy.
Update below the fold
It is now clear that, gladly, this entire mess was a hoax. I still find the entire thing quite disturbing. This apparently was
Shvarts' idea of elaborate "performance art.""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," said Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky.
I may be a bit slow, but what in tarnation does that even mean? The ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman's body?
Another interesting quote:
Shvarts told the paper her goal was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body.
Cullen MacBeth, the student newspaper's managing editor, declined to comment Thursday.
Shvarts could not be reached for comment. Her telephone number was disconnected and she did not respond to e-mails or a knock on the door at the address listed for her in the campus directory in New Haven.
Does it seem to anyone else that the "spark conversation and debate" rational is way over used? I cannot speak for anyone else, but I am too busy will providing for my family to take the time to discuss the relationship between art and the human body. It seems she did not want to spark conversation too much as she would not respond to questions and has cut off all communication avenues with the outside world.
I feel sorry for Ms. Shvarts
by SIConservative
She obviously has some very deep psychological problems and she desperately needs help.
This reminds me of the Greatest Spengler Column Ever
by Repair Man Jack
Admit It - You Hate Modern Art.
"I believe we must adjourn this meeting to some other place." - The last recorded words of Adam Smith.
This is worse than
by rstreu
pisschrist. Jesus can handle being insulted. This is murder. And yeah, to answer the libs -- I think this whack-job ought to be in jail.
Fred Thompson, 2008
A) this person needs psychological evaluation
B) there should be SOME sort of consequence on the school for allowing this sort of thing
C) okay so abortion is legal or whatever, but this goes FAR beyond a woman's choice, there should at least be some sort of manslaughter...i don't know SOME sort of charge
I challenge a brilliant attorney out there some where to find a way to fight this.
This is TRULY disgusting!!!
MelZ
Yale Pro-Choicers
by Wycoff
If you read the Yale news article discussing this, even some of Yale's ardent pro-choicers are taken aback by this, calling it an abuse of her constitutional rights. They should be outraged, as it underscores the fundamental premise underlying their philosophy- that life is ultimately valueless. It's not very palatable to them having to recognize that that's what they believe.
Being an attorney myself, I am personally familiar with cases somewhat similar to this that garnered criminal prosecution. I am presently representing a woman in Alabama who has been charged with distribution of drugs to a minor and willful child abuse because when her baby was born the baby tested positive for cocaine. While I feel that Alabama law does not allow for her prosecution for a number of reasons, the intentional, repeated abortion would give rise to intentional conduct that a District Attorney's office could pursue. Then again, this is Alabama and that is Connecticut.
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R. Michael Woodard
I believe that this is the final sign that it's time for...
by Jeff Emanuel
...University Art Departments to go the way of the Yeti once and for all.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
Jeff
by liberalrepublican
respectfully, that makes as much sense as picking out an outrageous, disgusting comment on a political blog and saying it the final sign that it's time for political blogs to go the way of the Yeti once and for all.
This is a disturbed women - I pity her most of all.
there has to be someplace to warehouse all the useless and flighty undergrads.
/jus keeding
//sort of
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Been around an Art Dept much?
by Jeff Emanuel
I have. They need to go.
I bet she gets an NEA grant for it. n/t
by Herodotus
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
---Thomas Paine---
"Rivals" the "Piss Christ"
by RandomGuy
"Rivals" the "Piss Christ" exhibit?
Did anybody die in the creation of "Piss Christ"?
I thought "Piss Christ" was silly and offensive. But if it hadn't been given public funding, I, nor most other people, would have given it a second thought. This isn't silly and offensive like "Piss Christ", it's downright barbaric and murderous.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
up in a mental institution for her own safety.....with regards to the murder she will answer for that when she dies.
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
Sadly, she got what she wanted.
by scottbomb
Attention.
True, BUT, the old statement
by RandomGuy
True, BUT, the old statement that there's no such thing as bad publicity has truth to it, but it only goes so far.
This kind of stuff is likely to make her radioactive. Good luck getting a job with anybody but even the most far-left, and by "far left" I don't mean Ted Kennedy, I mean Noam Chomskey.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
FWIW
by Derannimer
On HotAir, some of the commentators are saying this can't be true; that there's no way, in a nine-month period, she could have collected a noticeable amount of blood, and that she's probably just using menstrual blood and faking it. I certainly hope that's true, though it's still profoundly sick.
Let's pass a law to curb this atrocity
by tankertodd
If a law can exist that curbs late-term abortions why can't a law be passed that prohibits someone getting pregnant for the express purpose of aborting it?
Since the Left says they hate abortion I can't see why they would object to it...at least the rational lefties, if there is such a thing.
I'd oppose this. I'm a
by RandomGuy
I'd oppose this. I'm a hardcore pro-lifer, but I'm also a hardcore 1st Amendment guy.
I'd favor banning abortion entirely, except to save the life of the mother, but so long as it's legal, I don't think that the government should be able to regulate if you are "expressing" yourself through legal conduct at all. That's a wide open door for all kinds of government mischief.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
Upon further reflection, let me clarify:
by RandomGuy
I would favor ANY restriction we can get on abortion for the reason that abortion ends what I think is a Constitutionally protected life. However, I would NOT try to argue that on the grounds that we want to suppress that sort of expression, which would do violence to the first amendment if allowed based on those grounds.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
Wrong response
by civil truth
The last thing we want is some kind of law tailored on a fringe action. This is not a conservative approach, where we don't look to government to remedy every evil that takes place. In fact, your reaction is analogous to the left's kneejerk reaction to mass shootings by demanding gun control laws - in terms of the rationale.
Sometimes, you just have to leave it to public abhorrence to deal with matters. Plus, this individual may well have deep-seated mental issues that she's exposed. Not to mention a bizarre definition of art.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/04/17/yale-students...
Still disgusting that her thought process took her to attempt to do whatever she was doing.
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
They are probably right.
by RandomGuy
They are probably right.
They didn't even address one thing I wondered: How fast can you get pregnant after you have a miscarriage? Even if she had one miscarriage, how could you have had so many others in only 9 months? I'm no biologist, but I'm guessing you can't have a miscarriage and then get pregnant the next day.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
Of course this is a hoax.
by Menlo
Of course this is a hoax.
The part about the "herbs" was the first one to tip me off. It makes no sense that the Chinese-made RU486 would be regulated if such a thing were out there. Besides, there has never been mention of such a thing in any legislative debate. I'd think many groups would have lobbied for such an herb's prohibition or regulation, whether one was on the side of life or the money-hungry abortionists.
At this point, I could have seen why it might have been believable had she only joined Yale's abortion training program. A couple of years ago, Yale was proudly promting a demonstration of manual vacuum aspiration abortions, inviting students to try it on a papaya (and a ball of cotton for the baby).
But then the idea of artificially inseminating herself really made no sense. I doubt her chances were that good without professional medical involvement. The idea of doing it herself was not credible.
Someone reads too much Amanda Marcotte n/t
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So this is what constitutes "art" now?