Abortion as art… NOT
Posted on April 17, 2008
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A Yale student claimed to impregnate herself and then give herself induced miscarriages throughout a nine-month period for her senior art project. The documentation of the project, i.e. video recordings of the miscarriages and blood collected from the procedure (how dainty), were supposed to be shown at the exhibition next week.
Anyway, that was what the press reported earlier today. Then Aliza Shvart (the student) was all like, gotcha suckaz. She didn’t do it, so a Yale administrator said. The trick was only pulled because, “the entire project is an art piece…a creative fiction designed to draw ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body,” the Huffington Post quoted.
The administrator also said that such a project would have violated ethical standards and raised serious physical concerns. By saying it would violate ethical standards, Yale is adhering to the safe side of ethical standards, so no one gets their feelings hurt, I suppose. Physically, induced miscarriages are twice as safe as
childbirth–But I suppose purposely impregnating yourself and then doing it over and over hasn’t exactly been tested, or is common.
The meaning of the project, come to think of it, touches upon a lot of topics–The physical capacity to go through such procedures in a nine-month period would be impossible if she were to continue with her everyday life. Meaning, the belief the public had at that capacity shows the unawareness of the female anatomy in general and importance to learn anything about it.
‘Twas a clever ivy league trick on us all.
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