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Abortion as Art?

Posted by Ben on April 17, 2008 at 1:45 p.m. in News, Health, Arts
A Yale art student pushes boundaries, breaks taboos, and churns up countless questions with her art project.

I'm just speechless:

[Yale] 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.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts' project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock . saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

Wow. This is indeed stunning. I give Ms. Shvarts that: as a provocateur, she has completely succeeded in making me pause to think about what she's done.

Perez Hilton, the infamous celebrity blogger who first broke this story (as far as I can tell) in the mass media, is downright disgusted and worries for her heatlh. He also has no idea what to think in the end.

What do you think of her project and its significance?


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