Outrage Over 'Self-Abortion Art'. Yale student says she artificially inseminated herself and then took herbal drugs to induce miscarriages for art project:
- Art major Aliza Shvarts' project has attracted reactions of disgust and outrage since the Yale Daily News broke the story of her upcoming exhibit on Thursday.
Shvarts said the goal of the project is to spark debate and discussion about the connection between art and the human body.
Shvarts told the school paper that her sperm donors, whom she declined to identify, were not paid for their participation, but added that she did require them to be screened for STDs.
The drugs she took to induce contractions and miscarriages were legal and herbal in nature, according to Shvarts, who didn't specify what they were. The art major insisted that she wasn't concerned about the effects of her research on her own body.
Shvarts wouldn't say how many times she was artificially inseminated and actually got pregnant for the project — which she described to the Yale paper as a huge cube hanging from the ceiling and swathed in plastic sheeting smeared with her blood from the reported miscarriages. The existence and number of pregnancies Shvarts weren't independently confirmed.
Videos taken of what the college student says were self-induced abortions in her bathtub will be projected both on the cube's sides and on the gallery walls.
It seems to me that this sort of thing is more likely than not to make people want to regulate abortion.
