Abortion = Art????
Filed under: Icky Icky Poo > Wacky, Tacky & TrueSometimes people use the excuse of "art" in order to get away with craziness!
Aliza Shvarts, a Yale art major, has done something different for her senior art project this year.
The "artist" has documented herself throughout a 9 month process where she artificially inseminated herself and then periodically took abortifacient drugs in order to induce miscarriages.
The exhibit, which will begin next Tuesday, will include video recordings of the forced miscarriages.
WTF?!?!?! Ewwww!!!!!
It will also include preserved samples of the blood during the process.
According to Shvarts, her goal was to "spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body."
Students have expressed shock upon hearing of the exhibit. Rightfully so!
Shvarts insists that her art isn't for shock value. Liar. She says, "I hope it inspires some sort of discourse. Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone."
As for the "donors", she claims they were not paid for their "services". She also claims to have required them to periodically take tests for STDs, though did not want to disclose the number of sperm donors used.
As for the medical risk related to multiple abortions, Shvarts says she was not worried. She said the abortifacient drugs she took were herbal and legal, and decided she didn't need to consult a doctor.
IDIOT!!!!!
What if she's caused herself serious and permanent damage????
At least this "artist" has one fan. Juan Castillo, another senior art major, said he was intrigued by the beauty of her project. He says, "I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn't. I think that most people were very resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work itself."
As for the actual exhibit, Schvarts will feature a large cube hanging from the ceiling. Wrapped around that cube will be hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting which will be lined with her blood from the miscarriages.
Ewwww!!!!
The old blood will be mixed with vaseline to prevent it from drying.
Double EWWWWWW!!!
She will also project the recorded videos of herself, showing the miscarriages she had in her bathtub, onto the sides of the cube.
Similar footage will also be projected onto the walls of the room.
We're starting to get a bit queezy!
This is TOO MUCH!!!!!!
Shvarts adds, "It was a private and personal endeavor, but also a transparent one for the most part. This isn't something I've been hiding." Adding, that she believes "strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity. I think that I'm creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."
We're all for a woman's right to choose, but this is abusing that right.
We don't know what to think anymore.
What do U think?
murderer. She should get the death penalty.
this is just sick. As for her only "fan" - isn't he the same guy who took a dog, chained it to a wall and put a bowl of food across the room for it that it couldn't get to and let it starve to death for art???
These 2 should marry and then record themselves killing eachother for "art" - free up some space
I think that psychotic thing should be "evaluated" at an institution. I think this is much deeper than just an art project. She (it) must have some serious issues to think that this would be an okay thing to do.
When reading about how she is going to display the "ART" its absolutely discusting. Ladies would you display your USED tampons or pads and call it art?? pretty doubtful.
Really, Perez could you please refrain from posting things like this and just stick with the "click her for a good cause" and celebs…
R U FUCKEN KIDDING ME!!!?!??! I mean this is taking things way to far. I am pro choice but at this point you are laughing at preganancy and the miracle behind it. I think it is just plain disgusting what she did and Where is the Art in this??????
How sick! Whatever your opinion on abortion is…getting pregnant to purposely abort later is wrong! There is nothing artful about the loss of a life of a child!
so she is murdering innocent life? what a fucking BITCH!
Abortion=Murder
As someone who recently had a natural miscarriage…this is utterly disgusting!!!! It verges on offensive and hurtful to women who are trying to have baby.
This is not art! This is one sick beeyotch.
I think this is absolutly a disgrace! I have been trying to get pregnant for over 2 years as well as millions of other women and this girl is taking for granted what so many people will never have in their lives! she should go to jail.
Re: IlovePerez –
Hahaha. I already did! How did you find her e-mail?
OMG! This is just…. what the fuck is she smoking? I'm not one to hope for harm on people, but fuck that! This bitch is crazy! I hope somethig goes wrong and she won't be able to have any children. I'm just… speachless.
I cn't believe this woman calls it art! The bitch is just sick, I can't imagine any woman purposelydoing that. She has no heart!!!
That's absolutely ridiculous and disgusting
It's an interesting concept, although I think it will give a lot of the anti-choicers fodder for complaining. It will definitely create controversy and provoke thought (although I'd like to think the controversy would be more than 'OMG wut a stupid bitch whore!').
This is exactly why we must protect a woman's right to choose to have a legal abortion performed by trained medical professionals. If we lose that right, women and girls will have to resort to illegal alternatives, like herbs and wire hangers. I think what she is doing is disgusting and it belittles the gravity and seriousness of facing an unwanted pregnancy. However, it does provide a window into what would very likely happen if we cannot go to our physician to have an abortion.
I do not think that this would be considered art by anyone anywhere. That is ridiculous and she should be ashamed for herself.
OHMYGOSH! That is awful not to mention immoral. I'm shocked. What was that woman thinking and I can't believe that this isn't illegal. She is creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it. WTF!!
this bitch is full on crazy!
As someone who has been told that I will not be able to have kids, this makes me sick. What about all those people who will never know what it is like to be parents and she is just going around killing babies for art. This woman, should be put in jail and the key thrown away!
Re: Kate – You're an asshole. You might as well back the Nazi's during WWII for their equally abominable experiments on the Jews of Europe. Educate yourself, douchebag.
Typical wealthy, privileged, Jewess Princess looking to schock people.
WHAT IN THE WORLD?!! mutiple abortions for art's sake.. that is just sick and abusing woman's rights and devaluing life. what is this world coming to… whatever point of discussion she was trying to conclude towards is not worth this, and most people already know the human body is art in its intricate and complex designs.
Things go extremely wrong when humans play god…
maybe some wonderful (uneccessary?) discoveries can be made menawhile but really at what cost.
what an asshole
but i think she's full of shit. she was probably never even pregnant.
she should rot.
The only way that "art" such as this will continue to be…is if attention such as this is continually given to them.
This is obviously a mentally ill woman. The fact that Yale would allow something like this is completely disgusting.
This woman may be mentally ill but she knows that if she sets this up and charges a fee…she will make a lot of money simply from peoples curiousity.
She is essentially setting up a graveyard and inviting people to come and see it.
Having lost a baby myself….I would not wish it on my worst enemy. The fact that this woman intentionally does it to herself numerous times is beyond my comprehension.
All I can say is..karma, karma.
Hopefully she did enough damage to herself so that when she does want kids she cannot have any. That chick is sick.
not cool
i feel every woman has the right to make an informed desicion about going though with pregnancy. i would never personally abort a child of mine but some woman dont want kids or are in a stage in there life when they cant. its not my place to judge… BUT this is going way to damn far. this should be illegal to purposly impregnate your self MULTIPLE times just to abort it, save the blood and im guess the fetus the way this sick bitch is and record it. she is off her rocker!
i agree with you perez! she's abusing her privelages for a woman and making all pro-abortion people look f-ing nutz!
SICK!
Perez, what this woman underwent was not a 'miscarriage' - which is the unwanted loss of a pregnancy… but multiple abortions.
I am slightly concerned that your article focuses on the obviously unpleasant and graphic nature of her so-called 'art', but also on the risk to her own health.
I think more importantly that concern should be shown for the number of aborted babies which died in the name of art.
I fully support a woman's right to choose an abortion if she wishes - but I am disgusted by someone that would sacrifice human life for the sake of a few bloodstained plastic sheets.
These were human beings. Babies.
Like it or not, this woman is responsible for their deaths. I feel that THIS is the most important point which you should have raised.
Karen x x x
As somone who wants children, BUT CAN'T have them, they should rip out her uterus!!!!!! THAT'S IT…. JUST RIP IT THE F OUT!!!!!!!!!
if anyone wants to express themselves (after all, that's what art is for according to her!)
Dean of art: robert.storr@yale.edu
aliza.shvarts@yale.edu
She should be prosecuted. Seriously. This bitch should pay.
I cant even finish READING THIS SHIT!!!! I am as pro choice as any girl, but abortion is NOT something to 'play' with. If anything, this chick has some MAJOR ISSUES!!!! Dear god, here come back lunch.
This is beyond "Art". This is Murder!
This is beyond disgusting!!! She needs to put in a fucking psyche ward!!! Sick!!!
robert.storr@yale.edu
aliza.shvarts@yale.edu
this is totally sick… an abortion should be the option used as a last resort. It should not be used as "lazy" birth control and it definitely shouldn't be used like this. Disgusting
Perhaps karma will hit her and one day when she is older and actually wants to have a child, she will be plagued with miscarriages or infertility….
Hello "Art" by a Sociopath — increasingly, these are the folks that populate our world and will be making decisions for us in our dotage. All raised on the "Survival of the Fittest" & "Me First" mentality. Compassion and regard for human life is dwindling into nothingness. The general lack of respect this woman shows for her own body is telling in and of itself, she doesn't even value herself! Ugh.
It really takes a lot to offend me and I don't get riled up very often, BUT this is horrible. I am completely shocked and appalled that she thinks this is art, much less okay to do!!!!!!!! Someone needs to slap that bitch.
well… im appalled. God's vengeance is swift.
This is just absolutely wrong in so many ways. This girl needs some help. There is nothing "art" about abortion. This girl is disgusting…
¡QUE LASTIMA! She's obviously twisted and perverted I bet she doesn't even realize how retarded she is, bendeha. Hopefully her concha stops working and then she can tell us all how artistic it is to have a cave instead of a vagina.
OMG this is sick! LORD JESUS help her
She should be repremended for this abuse. Screw what she does to her body, but we have freedom of choice in america and thats something not to take lightly or abuse. She has no remorse and if she's such a deep thinker and "artsy" then where is the gray, its not just black and white…..I cant believe she doesnt have a heart or care about what message she's putting across. So vulger.
disgusting
JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!!!!!
I think this woman is desperate for attention and fame….I think the best thing for all of us to do is act like she and this despicable action NEVER TOOK PLACE. Don't cover this on the news, don't cover it on this site! Don't give her any attention because that's what she wants is attention, she's a famewhore! So many women out there want to be pregnant and cannot afford to be artificially inseminated when their bodies don't take to pregnancy naturally and this woman is inseminating herself only to abort. Sad. I am 7 months pregnant with a baby boy and cannot wait to meet my son. I agree with a woman's right to choose but this bitch has gone too far. I will personally never click on a link that talks about her or if I see her on the news I will change the channel. She should be shunned by society for these acts of atrocity!!!!
oh and p.s….
in my opinion these should not be called miscarriages - they should be called exterminations.
I know people who have gone through the loss and suffering of a miscarriage - it is an insult to them to give this SH-0) the same name
I don´t know.
There´s something reaaaally wrong about this girl!
I don't even want to comment on this as it is beyond disgusting. She is not contributing to the advancement of society, but bringing it down.
You can't do stupid shit and call it art. IF this was the case, hell, I could kill somebody and say, "this is art, now lets discuss".
I guess… it is true what they say… ONLY IN AMERICA.
Her parent must be proud.
She really is an idiot….abortions are not birth control or art…i think this lady needs to rethink her career.
What a pretentious fucknut. She *thinks* she's being deep, but all she's doing is screaming out for someone to pay attention to her…and at what cost to her body and the lives of those unwilling fetuses? I'm 100% for pro-choice…but abortion isn't something that should be taken lightly, and it certainly shouldn't be abused. What she did really IS murder. She intended to allow life to begin in her body and then intentionally killded it….all for the name of *art*. Are you fucking kidding me? Someone should bring her up on charges.
http://jezebel.com/380897/yale-senior-undergoes-multiple-self+induced-miscarriages-in-the-name-of-art
another article talking about this, the number of hits her name has on google, and a recent photo (in a horrible outfit)
This is not art. Speaking as someone who has friends that have miscarried and have had trouble conceiving and who also have gone through the heart wrenching decision to have an abortion, I am totally appalled. I'm not some right wing conservative or anything and do consider myself to be pro-choice but this just completely devalues human life and womans rights as well. I'm so sick of people who do disgustingly offensive acts and claim it to be all in the name of art. Is there no other way to "spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body."? She's a total disgrace.
i have never read anything more disgusting.
i have nothing to say
#952 - Mandy has a great point,
I wish everyone's reaction was a little less reactive to killing her or smacking her. Think how many human rights are abused today, how many people die unrightfull deaths. Politically we are just as 'responsible' for their deaths. She is taking personal and physical responsibility for her own project. As an artist she could potentially fail because conceptually and visually her work will be a one-liner a one hit wonder, unless she can figure out a way to talk about or abuse other rights using her body which is highly unlikely after a mob of pro-lifers beat her unconscious. I wish people put all that abortion issues passion into feeding world hunger.
To think that women to date have been able to stand on the right to choose because it might have been the best way out of an unwanted situation, deformed fetus, or some other horrific scenario. But to intentionally become pregnant for the purpose of having an abortion is absolutely blasphemous and trivializes the arguements supporting a woman's right to choose. I hope she becomes the target of a right wing prosecutor and goes to jail for murder.
it would be nice if you could provide links to your sources. if you're using quotes from the "Yale Daily News," give them some credit for godsake.
no doubt, this woman should be in jail!!!!!! i was always for a womans right to choose as long as she isn't using it as a form of birth control. i now have a child and couldn't imagine doing it. but for someone to take it to this level is sick. she needs a mental check up and i hope all those abortion pills sterilized her!
How in the world could anyone consider this disgusting display of carnage "art". What happened to beauty in art? What is wrong with art trying to inspire instead of shock? Is it too late to bring back public burning at the steak?
i cannot believe that a quote - unquote "intelligent" Yale student would stoop this low… that goes to show you that smarts and common sense/morality don't always go hand in hand.. i am horrified …. truely this world must be comming to an end
this is a sign the end is near. what the hell does no one care about life anymore…
Horrible and insane… What is wrong with her?
If you ask me, not only is this a mockery to women's rights but its also murder! Making yourself abort a child on purpose? Why would anyone in their right mind do such a thing…multiple times? I pray God has some sympathy for her actions and she never gets pregnant again!
It's her body. It's her choice. She isn't even using perscription medication to do it. How is that any different than women in their 40's who try and try to get pregnant but keep having miscarriages because of their age? Intent? Please. They know they are physically too old to carry to term without assistance and yet they continue to try breeding. Same thing. It's just a couple of cells, not a person. The artist is a person yet "christians" are calling her "sick" and saying she should die. What if one of these cell clusters would have been another artist who wanted to recreate the project 20 years from now? Would you still want that cluster of cells brought to term? It's just a gooey mess of cells.
This bitch is majorly fucked in the head to call this art.
OMG!!!!
She's NOT an artist, she's twisted fuck!!!
abortion is murder whether you do it once or over and over she will have to answer for this during her judgement and so will the woman you just "couldn't have a baby" abortion is murder of a baby no matter how you slice it
um someone should give her some sort of phsyciatric exam to determine whether she suffers from some sort of disorder and perhaps have her commited
EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!
meh, no big deal
The exhibit should not be allowed. What a disgusting waste of human life. This girl needs serious pyschiatric care - NOW!
That is just WRONG!!!! I don't get it.
She's F****ED UP!!!!WTF
wtf? that is terrible, and should be illegal. I think someone can make this a court case any jury will agree this is an abuse.
I am pro-choice, but this is abusing that right and insulting to all women who had to make this very painful and life changing decision. If she ever choses to have a child and realizes what she did for the sake of "art"… Very sad and disturbing.
OMG its murder, plain and simple. She is a disgusting and sick individual that has used "art" as an excuse to show how fucking psycho she is. The fact that this is legal is unbelievable.
on bhalf of me and my roommate, that is so disgusting. that girls needs to be ina mental institution, not at yale art school….what a psycho.
I believe in Pro-Choice, but this lady has taken it to an extreme. A normal person would not do something like this. She is extremely misguided in life and really needs to have her head looked at! I also can not believe that a school of any sorts would allow someone to do this and make an exhibit out of it! This truely has nothing to do with art and everything to do with a very sick individual!
absolutley vile.
This is absolutely reprehensiable! I am pro-choice, but this goes far beyond a women's right to choose. Abortion is not something to be taken lightly and using "art" as an excuse is so pathetic. I question her integrity and ability as an artist if she feels that she must resort to this. Intentionally impregnating yourself in order to abort the baby is disgusting and wrong. I hope she faces some form of consequences for this, through school as well as lose the ability to concieve. She doesn't deserve to have the ability to create a child.
well first as a mother as a woman i am utterly disturbed,sickened and saddened by this there are woman who would give their soul to have a baby and can;t someone should rip this bitches insides out so she can never hurt another innocent lifeform again.I think she is a sick and twisted bitch,psycho and i hope she rots in hell all those poor babies i hope what she did haunts her for the rest of her worthless immoral life.
SIck Lil bitch. Y would a woman put herself through that. Que pendeja y huevona que quiere sufrir por un fuking diploma. DUMB ASS!
This is sad, and very sick. I feel sorry for her. As a mom, who has suffered a miscarriage…how could anyone do this. I am pro-life. 100%, and this makes my reasoning even stronger.
So DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the fact that she kills mutiple babies for shits and giggles and tries to call it art is sick. She should have been aborted and maybe, just maybe the world would not have this JACK NUT in it. I agree that there is a time and a place for an abortion but she should be arrested and sterilized………..
This person, is a Disgrace to all… Yes i do believe in woman's rights, but this crazy bitch has gone too far
shes living up to a standard of what art should be?
i know where she should be.. a mental institution, getting her head checked.
There is a special place in hell for people like her. It is a sick world we live in when someone mistakes manipulating the god given miracle of creating life only to destroy it for art. I would advise some therapy for this very disturbed individual.
This is absolutely horrifying. This is beyond unethical and I'm so very pro-choice but this is too much. She should be locked up in a nut house and anyone else who belives this is "art."
lets all get together and beat the shit out of her and call it art, that would "spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body."
OMG… OMG… I just want to cry..
Here I am trying to have a baby for 6 years (have done 2 IVFS) and this bitch is doing this!! OMG.. I feel like I'm having a panic attack………
THis is just horrid.
Im not 100% against abortion but that is awful and a huge insult to all the women who cant have children and have suffered miscarriges. Whether her objective is art or political there is no need for either, i think people are already aware of the issues around it
So ignorant
S E R I O U S L Y . . .
I would type in all caps, but I know how much Perez hates that…
I am absolutely for art and freedom of speech, but this is going too far. I'm sure that this student thinks that by creating something so alarming and unheard of, she'll attract positive attention to her little "project". The unfortunate outcome is that she's going to attract the wrong attention and become infamous instead of famous.
That's just my opinion…
As someone in the contemporary art world professionally, I have to say, not only is this icky, but it is also lazy and lame, art that exists solely to shock is just crap.
Pathetic.
I dunno, I don't really see the problem!! Must be because I'm Dutch and not religious..?
having an abortion is such a hard thing. I am completely pro choice and agree that a woman should have the right to her body. but to do this is a travesty. It is something that we dont want to do, and think " OK i think ill just have an abortion" no its a hard choice bc you need to think about the person you are. but to do this to potential lives is horrible. to think about it, i never really thought about it as life, but now i do, AND I AM STILL PRO CHOICE! its a woman's right. but to keep doing it! that is an abuse of this right, and an abuse to children everywhere. to think of them as nothing for the sake of art is horrible. i can not stress that i support for a woman's right, but i am so infuriated that someone would do this bc it is hard for some women to get pregnant and for all those woman out there who had abortions, INCLUDING ME! who hated the fact that they had to have an abortion because they needed to grow up or get their life in order! This "GIRL" should be evaluated and put away. THIS IS NOT ART and i think someone needs to start a petition to get this piece of shit girl and her idea of art thrown out of her school.
she is a sick, sick person! she's going to burn in hell for that shit!
That's killing babies on purpose! How is she not arrested! And that doctor who is doing that and giving her the drugs needs to have his license taken away!
Horrible!
There aren't enough words to describe how awful this is. How does a person come up with such horrible ideas in the name of art. Is this how serial killers start out?