[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', '
')I see your angle and yes you are correct yet it certainly seemed you fell into their line of thinking and was running with it.

[Ayoob]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351608,00.html

A Yale student's stunning claims of repeatedly artificially inseminating herself and then taking drugs to induce miscarriages for her senior art project aren't true, the university said Thursday night.

The student, art major Aliza Shvarts, told several high-level Yale officials that she did not do the things she said she did in constructing the exhibit, according to a strongly worded statement issued by the Ivy League school and sent to FOXNews.com.

"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 Helaine S. Klasky, associate dean and vice president for public affairs at Yale. "Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials."

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But was it really fake?

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\ For the past year, I performed repeated self-induced miscarriages … Using a needleless syringe, I would inject the sperm near my cervix within 30 minutes of its collection, so as to insure the possibility of fertilization. On the 28th day of my cycle, I would ingest an abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding. ... Because the miscarriages coincide with the expected date of menstruation (the 28th day of my cycle), it remains ambiguous whether the there[sic] was ever a fertilized ovum or not. The reality of the pregnancy, both for myself and for the audience, is a matter of reading.

—Aliza Shvarts, Yale Daily News, April 18, 2008[8]

A Yale University student who touched off a campus firestorm with her shocking claims of repeatedly artificially inseminating herself and then inducing miscarriages as part of an art project stood by her story Friday, despite statements from the university that her version of events is "creative fiction."

In a guest column that ran in Friday's Yale Daily News — which first reported her claims in Thursday's edition — senior art major Aliza Shvarts maintained that she had conducted artificial inseminations and carried out what she characterized as self-induced miscarriage procedures, though she never actually knew whether she was pregnant.

"For the past year, I performed repeated self-induced miscarriages," Shvarts wrote in Friday's column. "Using a needleless syringe, I would inject the sperm near my cervix within 30 minutes of its collection, so as to insure the possibility of fertilization.

"On the 28th day of my cycle, I would ingest an abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding. ... Because the miscarriages coincide with the expected date of menstruation (the 28th day of my cycle), it remains ambiguous whether the there (sic) was ever a fertilized ovum or not.

"The reality of the pregnancy, both for myself and for the audience, is a matter of reading."
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o Yale Officials Conclude Student's Shocking Claim of 'Abortion Art' Was 'Creative Fiction'

She reiterated that the display, which she herself drew attention to with a press release circulated Wednesday, was meant to provoke discussion about the link between art and the human body.

"This piece — in its textual and sculptural forms — is meant to call into question the relationship between form and function as they converge on the body," she wrote.


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Maybe it IS fake!

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But now the Yale student newspaper has a guest column in which Schvarts' art is exposed as a hoax - even though she continues to defend it, saying she used what may have been menstrual blood to draw the painting.
''Because the miscarriages coincide with the expected date of menstruation (the 28th day of my cycle), it remains ambiguous whether ... there was ever a fertilized ovum or not. The reality of the pregnancy, both for myself and for the audience, is a matter of reading,'' she wrote.
When confronted by three senior Yale officials, however, including two deans, Shvarts acknowledged that she was never pregnant and did not induce abortions, reports JournalNet. ''She said if Yale puts out a statement saying she did not do this, she would say Yale was doing that to protect its reputation,'' said spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said.

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If there's nothing wrong with abortion then it's just an art project. If it bothers you... maybe there's something wrong with abortion.

[charliebrownout]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'h')ttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351608,00.html

A Yale student's stunning claims of repeatedly artificially inseminating herself and then taking drugs to induce miscarriages for her senior art project aren't true, the university said Thursday night.

The student, art major Aliza Shvarts, told several high-level Yale officials that she did not do the things she said she did in constructing the exhibit, according to a strongly worded statement issued by the Ivy League school and sent to FOXNews.com.

"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 Helaine S. Klasky, associate dean and vice president for public affairs at Yale. "Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials."

---------------------------------------

But was it really fake?

--------------------------------------

\ For the past year, I performed repeated self-induced miscarriages … Using a needleless syringe, I would inject the sperm near my cervix within 30 minutes of its collection, so as to insure the possibility of fertilization. On the 28th day of my cycle, I would ingest an abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding. ... Because the miscarriages coincide with the expected date of menstruation (the 28th day of my cycle), it remains ambiguous whether the there[sic] was ever a fertilized ovum or not. The reality of the pregnancy, both for myself and for the audience, is a matter of reading.

—Aliza Shvarts, Yale Daily News, April 18, 2008[8]

A Yale University student who touched off a campus firestorm with her shocking claims of repeatedly artificially inseminating herself and then inducing miscarriages as part of an art project stood by her story Friday, despite statements from the university that her version of events is "creative fiction."

In a guest column that ran in Friday's Yale Daily News — which first reported her claims in Thursday's edition — senior art major Aliza Shvarts maintained that she had conducted artificial inseminations and carried out what she characterized as self-induced miscarriage procedures, though she never actually knew whether she was pregnant.

"For the past year, I performed repeated self-induced miscarriages," Shvarts wrote in Friday's column. "Using a needleless syringe, I would inject the sperm near my cervix within 30 minutes of its collection, so as to insure the possibility of fertilization.

"On the 28th day of my cycle, I would ingest an abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding. ... Because the miscarriages coincide with the expected date of menstruation (the 28th day of my cycle), it remains ambiguous whether the there (sic) was ever a fertilized ovum or not.

"The reality of the pregnancy, both for myself and for the audience, is a matter of reading."
Related

*
Stories
o Yale Officials Conclude Student's Shocking Claim of 'Abortion Art' Was 'Creative Fiction'

She reiterated that the display, which she herself drew attention to with a press release circulated Wednesday, was meant to provoke discussion about the link between art and the human body.

"This piece — in its textual and sculptural forms — is meant to call into question the relationship between form and function as they converge on the body," she wrote.


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Maybe it IS fake!

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But now the Yale student newspaper has a guest column in which Schvarts' art is exposed as a hoax - even though she continues to defend it, saying she used what may have been menstrual blood to draw the painting.
''Because the miscarriages coincide with the expected date of menstruation (the 28th day of my cycle), it remains ambiguous whether ... there was ever a fertilized ovum or not. The reality of the pregnancy, both for myself and for the audience, is a matter of reading,'' she wrote.
When confronted by three senior Yale officials, however, including two deans, Shvarts acknowledged that she was never pregnant and did not induce abortions, reports JournalNet. ''She said if Yale puts out a statement saying she did not do this, she would say Yale was doing that to protect its reputation,'' said spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said.

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If there's nothing wrong with abortion then it's just an art project. If it bothers you... maybe there's something wrong with abortion.

[Ludi]

Maybe there's something wrong with repeatedly injuring oneself for "art." But of course, injuring oneself for "art" isn't especially new.

[Aaron]

DNRTFA

But what I wanna know is, why we care she's Jewish?

What possible significance can that have for this story?

Sometimes, abortion is a very good thing... like for this thread for example.

[Jenab6]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'B')ut what I wanna know is, why we care she's Jewish? What possible significance can that have for this story?

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jenab6', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'B')ut what I wanna know is, why we care she's Jewish? What possible significance can that have for this story?

[smallpoxgirl]

I suspect the art project involved was seeing how guilible people like Ayoob are and watching them freak out. Rather like the Japanese artist that claimed to have cooked and eaten a baby. Actually I'm enjoying watching her art at work in this thread.

Come on Ayoob. Lets here some outrage. Defend those fetuses.

Ohh...and by the way, Harvard and Yale are not the same school.

[Alcassin]

It has three good words "Jewish" "abortion" and "art".
Just enough to make christianfascists mad.

[Kylon]

This is horrible, if true.

If the woman really had 9 abortions just for a piece of art she is a real sicko, and not in the mental disabled can't help it category. In the disturbed normal looking/acting sociopath bastard nextdoor who wants to rape you while you sleep category.

I think if we are going to allow abortions(which I think we should, because disallowing will simply push the practice underground where a alot of teen pregnant mothers will die from unsanitary conditions), I think there needs to be some limitations. Killing infants because they'll ruin your life is bad enough. Killing them because of academic mental exercise is akin to killing a bunch of Jews because you want to see how cold the body temperature of a person can be before they die (I believe it's 84 degrees btw, from Nazi experiments).

This woman should be locked up if she really aborted those fetuses for art.

[shakespear1]

Since it happened at Harvard, one more example of how money is waisted.

As to the girl, I suspect she has some major head problems. Perhaps a semester in Angola helping the poor could ground here to life's realities, though the same environment may be found in poor parts of Boston.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alcassin', 'I')t has three good words "Jewish" "abortion" and "art".
Just enough to make christianfascists mad.

[Kaj]

Dog publically starved to death for art

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'I')'m enjoying watching her art at work in this thread.

[Jenab6]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shakespear1', 'S')ince it happened at Harvard, one more example of how money is waisted.

As to the girl, I suspect she has some major head problems. Perhaps a semester in Angola helping the poor could ground here to life's realities, though the same environment may be found in poor parts of Boston.

[PenultimateManStanding]

I've got to hand it to her. Makes me proud of my parents, who also met at UC Berkeley. If it wasn't for Cal State Chico, I wouldn't be here. Thank God for Fresno State.

[mercurygirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kaj', '[')url=http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/10/dog_publicly_st.html]Dog publically starved to death for art[/url]

[ian807]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ClassicSpiderman', 'A')bortion is nature's way of getting rid of the genetic chaff.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dolanbaker', '
')Once this farce is over, they'll be at it like rabbits.