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?
This woman is a disguisting pig! How dare she make light something as serious as abortion! Its not a decision women make on a whim and to purposely get pregnant for the sole reason of terminating it is sick. For once I hope the crazy pro lifers harass this woman. This is a disgrace to women everywhere and a slap in the face to anyone who has went through an abortion.
fucking disgraceful
Purposely impregnating yourself so you can intentionally cause miscarraiges? DISGUSTING! I…I'm speechless beyond that. Just… horrible.
This really fucking pisses me off, along with whoever is backing her up. You guys don't deserve to have a life if you really believe in this. I along with many of my friends would do anything to have a baby and when I hear shit like this its just even more pain because one of those babies could have been given to a wonderful loving home away from dumbass whores like you guys are. This is not art, this is tortue to not just those poor helpless children, but to every single person who cant have children but desperately want them.
NASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTY!!!
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Patrick-and anyone else who says a fetus is not a person-you are wrong. A fetus is the beginning of a life and to abort it over and over intentionally, you are killing a life. You were once a fetus, are you not a person? A living, breathing, thinking person? What, you did not have a heartbeat and life before you were actually delivered? You can spout that a fetus is not life until you are blue in the face, but it doesn't make it correct. And obviously, you are deluding yourself about this as a way to justify abortion.
I hope she's a Christian or at least believes in a higher power, cause she's gonna burn in hell for this!!!!! Sick digusting bitch!
I hope she dies in hell that fucking stupid bitch. This is an evil act of someone with a severe personality disorder. If I saw her I'd spit at her face!
THIS is beyond terrible! What the hell is going on in the world that by making abortion into art? Abortion is already a touchy subject, but to purposefully get pregant in order to abort- who does that? It's the same thing like the artist who got a stray dog, tied him to pole and let it starve to death. Just to provide social commentary.In turn , i am sure there will now be people who kill and then have their defense be - it was art. Is it then ok to allow a murderer be set free because he killed for the sake of art? WTF!
she is a sick m***** f*****. how dare she abuse the choices that women had to (and very hard choices), to make art out of it. she's sick.
I started to cry when I read this. Now I'm just disgusted. I am 11 weeks pregnant. I've had two miscarriages and pray every day that this pregnancy results in a healthy baby. I can't even begin to describe the heartache, pain and hopelessness my husband and I endured as a result of those miscarriages. Shame on this woman for trivializing such a horrible experience. Shame on Yale for not condemning such an inhumane exhibit.
WTF!?!?! SHE'S KILLING HUMAN BEINGS IN THE NAME OF ART?! WE SHOULD EMPALE HER AND BURN HER ALIVE!!!! IN WHOS MIND WILL THAT BE ART!?!?!?
I think it is very disturbing that in our society, a young woman who is intelligent enough to get into Yale will go to such disgusting measures to achieve fame. Something is wrong with this generations' priorities, we do not have enough respect for everything we have and young people have far too great a need for recognition and attention. It is really sad.
THIS GIRL HAS TAKEN HER ART TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL…IM ALL FOR WOMEN'S RIGHT ON WAT TO CHOOSE TO DO WITH THEIR BODIES BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH…. THIS GIRL IS SICK IN THE HEAD
This is why people want to take away women's right to choose. What a fucking STUPID ASS BITCH! She should be arrested. Women should have a right to choose but she totally took that to a very inappropriate level and dragged it through the mud.
um, a giant cube filled of abortion blood? What if this skank has AIDS? I hope the CDC comes after this exhibit and the girl who Shvarted (haha) out bloody fetuses all over the damn place. I hope her womb rots from the inside out for this.
I'm a big fan of Perez and therefore read his website everyday but this is the first time I have commented. I am extremely disgusted by this selfish bitch - I just suffered from a miscarriage last week and am trying to deal with the emotional as well as the physical pain I'm experiencing. I can't believe someone would be so selfish as to get pregnant and then purposely abort her own child - what about the rest of us who want so desperately to have a baby? I hope she goes to jail - if I was near her right now I would probably punch her senseless - I'm completely shocked at her cruelty and I hope she gets every hurtful and disgusting thing she deserves in life.
I'm all for pro-choice however I think this attempt at "art" is stupid and disgusting.
I can't believe someone actually believes this is beautiful. I've never heard anything so disturbing as this.
She really should go to jail for this. She created and then purposely murdered multiple beings - with souls. What is wrong with Yale to allow this? This is so upsetting.
That is fucken sick. Doesn't she know that there are millions of women who will die to have a baby and she is using this shit for art. SHE IS A FUCKEN FREAK. She will burn in hell for this shit.
This should be banned. She's making a mockery of a womans right to make a life changing, heartbreaking decision. Abortion isn't easy for any woman, and the fact that shes purposely got herself pregnant just to kill the child is an absolute fucking disgrace. I'd knock her out if i saw her. What a fucking bitch!! She should be charged with premeditated murder.
how inconsiderate and selfish.. It is not hers or anyone elses right to cheat life..
what goes around comes around honey…….. disgusting
I am so sick of people pulling outrageous stunts and then hiding behind "it's art, it's beautiful." What an absolute sorry excuse for a human being. What she is doing is equivalent to murder.
think of all the women out there who (involuntarily) have miscarriages and the sadness this woman has probably caused them. i just don't understand why some people have to abuse their rights as an american.
Gee- what an idiotic thought that ejaculation of sperm is the equivalent of abortions. Have you ever even went through school or biology? Good grief, the ignorance is astonishing!
She will regret this one day when she is actually mature enough to have a family. I kind of hope she has fucked herself up enough to the point that she can't have anymore children, no one wants a mother without a soul.
I am staunchly pro-choice, but this is absolutely disgusting. What a waste of human life. People will do absolutely anything for publicity and personal gain, and will use any justification for it. Through her actions she will damage the right to abortion on demand that every woman still has in this country. Anti-choice groups are going to have a field day with this idiot. When will it end? Starving dogs (hoax apparently) photographs of sexual acts, dead animals encased in glass, and now forced miscarriages for art? So who is going to do the first human sacrifice? Because it is coming any day now. SAD.
She needs serious psychatric involvement! I support a women'e right to choose, but this oversteps all moral/sensible and reasonable boundaries!
IDIOT!
Doesnt she want children in the long run? Those miscarriages can ultimately make her infertile in the future so why is she destroying that chance. IT's not fair to those who want children so badly and cant and here is she playing with miscarraiges for the sake of art. That's just inhumane.
This is absolutly fucking disgusting. I do not know why the school is supporting this "exhibit" in the art show, they should be banning her exhibit from showing. Also, i'm almost positive that some group will come and protest. What a horrible thing to do to yourself and these unborn babies. I honestly think that we should be able to prosecute when you get pregnant and abort for these reasons. If we beat her would that be art?????
I hope that it does cause her permanent damage. I hope she is never able to reproduce and bring a child into her f*d up point of view.
Horrible. This makes a mockery of what a woman's right to choice should mean. Abortion should be an option and a last resort, not something you aim for. I'm all about freedom of expression, but if people had any decency, they would snub her. That's not art, that's cruelty.
Just think about all of the babies she's murdering! OMG..God will one day deal with her…
Re: sam – You say abortion is murder. Babies who should have been aborted (i.e. those born to underpriveleged, poor mothers who mafe stupid decisions and can't afford to care for their children) will likely have babies who turn INTO murderers. PERIOD.
This is absolutely obsurd!!!! She will be the one to get Roe vs. Wade over turned!!! What an IDIOT!!!
People do horrible things in the name of art. Have you heard of this guy who took a street dog and let it die from hunger in a museum during an exposition? The dog was chained and the guy let a piece on meat just too far the dog could not reach it!! I heard that he plans on doing it again, we need to stand against that!
IT IS IDIOTS LIKE THIS THAT MAKE THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT/CONSERVATIVES/PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES HAVE A PLATFORM FOR THEIR BELIEF THAT ABORTION IS WRONG.
Yes, what this woman was doing with the right for an abortion is WRONG. Wrong in more ways than i can think of.
Then there are the women out there who don't just go and have an abortion for the fun of creating 'ART' and truely need that option.
I WANT TO KNOW WHICH PROFESSOR LET HER DO THIS. THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT. SENIOR PROJECTS DONT GET APPROVED WITHOUT YOUR ADVISOR OR PROFESSOR AGREEING TO IT. AND I'M SURE THE UNIVERSITIES ETHICS COMMITTEE IS LOVING ALL OF THE ATTENTION THEY ARE GETTING NOW.
I hate to say it, but I hope she does have permanent damage. She doesn't deserve to have kids EVER!
That disgusting bitch! I cannot believe this, the death of a potential child for the sake of art is not art at all, it is murder! Aliza Shvarts is a murderer.
disgusting bitch
Sick.
let's hope she look at all the fetus and then "aborts" herself.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE ART WORLD THIS IS NOT AS BAD AS THE "ARTIST" GUILLERMO VARGAS TIEING A DOG IN AN ART GALLERY AND LETTING HIM STARVE TO DEATH AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY CAME TO WHAT. AND NOW HE IS BEING FEATURED AS AN ARTIST IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND ASKED TO DO THIS AGAIN. WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO THIS SICK ART WORLD. THIS AIN'T ART ITS AN EXCUSE TO HAVE A CHANCE TO BEING A PYSCHO IN PUBLIC.
It's just too bad her mother did not abort her. As for permanent damage she has done to herself hopefully she caused herself to become sterile because fucked up people like that should not procreate anyway. People like her calling this art is what is wrong with the world today.
this is just wrong. she should go to jail, she is knowingly getting herself pregnant just to kill the fetus… she's a disgrace to motherhood.
That is the most offensive thing I've ever heard. Creating life just for the purpose of killing it is absolutely wrong. There is no purpose for this type of thing. One day I hope she realizes what she has done. It will one day come back to haunt her if not mentally, physically, emotionally, or socially she will regret this one day. She is getting what she wants…she wanted people to talk about her and to kill a baby for the purpose of "art" should be completely illegal. She needs to be evaluated. This is not art it is destroying the beauty of pregnancy and life her "project" is an abomination merely for the purpose of getting attention regardless of the consequences she will undoubtedly have to face in the future. There are other ways to start debate about topics that are controversial and important ending lives is not the right way to go creating a political platform.
Art is dead. Moreover, Yale is probably giving her financial aid in one form or another. Let me amend my first statement: art and higher education are dead. Both are driven solely by sensationalism, branding, and profit.
That's a disservice to women everywhere. Abortion is a right, and should stay that way….but this woman is mentally ill.
I'm pro-choice, but this is just gross.
being a studio art major i appreciate ART. she's just hurting herself. she should put a baby up for adoption and document that!
This is absolutly, positively the most disgusting thing I have ever heard. She needs to be shot!
This is appalling …I would expect more from Yale. Whether or not you believe in a woman's right to choose, there is no room for discussion that this is an incredibly irresponsible abuse of human rights and a mockery of the woman's body. The bottom line is that this is self-indulgent and filthy. I hope that she comes to the realization of how wrong it was to do this and shows remorse for this grotesque act.
She needs help. Pray for her and her future children.
I think this is disgusting, I personally think that art should have the linhe drawn at murder. I agree with the previous comment that her mother should have aborted her! Does she not realize that she was once a fetus too? Retarded and taken too far.
As the daughter of a woman who has suffered six miscarriages and one still-birth, I can't even begin to fathom the idea that someone could record something like that and call it art. Art is supposed to bring beauty to the world, inspire differences in perspective — and anyone who has suffered through a miscarriage will tell you that it's one of the most heart-wrenching experiences one can ever go through. This woman is SICK, and needs serious help.
# 556 That is the most RIDICULOUS argument ever! I am pro-choice, BUT this is not an accident this is a women who is premeditated her abortion!!! I also think that women who, usually on drugs, go around getting preggers and getting abortions is wrong to! BUT the difference is this is a "normal" human being doing this on purpose for art! As for the comment stating that its just for shock value I also agree because I dont know how some chick would make it into Yale for art if this is her idea of art!
Oh my God. How does this woman have no connection with the unborn child while carrying it for so long? and to do this over and over. Someone needs a psych check!!!!
Reading this seriously made me sick to my stomach. She needs to be evaluated by a shrink.
she's a sick fuckin bitch!…there are some women in this world who can't get pregnant for what ever reasons and this bitch does it on purpose and then kills her fetus! i hope she fucking dies next time she induces a miscarriage.
She really is walking on dangerous ground. The thought alone to do this is appaling and hurtful. I wonder if she considers her life being taken, 'art'? For I do believe someone will try to take her life now that this is circulating the world. How dreadful! I wish her whatever her Karma brings her.
Re: Kate – WTF?! YOU SICK!! SHE'S KILLING HUMAN BEINGS!!! WTF I HOPE SHE GOES TO HELL FOR THIS!! SHE HAD ABORTIONS IN THE NAME OF ART?? PFFFFFF BULLSHIT… SHE JUST WANTS ATTENTION
PEREZ! i thought u of all people would have more appreciation for art. She is doing this as a critique on society, and our way of throwing out everything. Our society is all about throwing away. She is just doing this an art form and if your that uneducated and can't understand it for what it is, I'm disappointed in you.!~
WTF?!!! i am pg right now and this is disgusting to me. She is abusing the right and needs to have her head checked and the exhibit boyctted!!
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Mis? carraige. More like HIT! But, could have pushed this further
Abortion Noodle Soup? Warhol where are you when we need you.
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abortion= murder! and this girl did it on purpose, she should be in jail. WTF lady, seriously you just killed A BABY. you are fucked up in the head. seriously she should be in jail or a ward or something. no lie. REALLY FUCKED UP LADY….
ps perez i'm proud you actually posted something worth commenting about. kudos.
This is most definitely abuse of a woman's legal right to choose. There needs to be consequences for her actions. It is illegal to knowingly pass on the AIDS virus because you are basically killing someone, why is it not illegal to purposely impregnate yourself only to purposely kill the fetus time after time? I call it murder.
This woman should be charged with a crime. To create a life only to dispose of it is a criminal offense.
What is wrong with our world. That made me physically sick to think about. Killing babies is art?????? Nice.
Seems like a direct flight to hell if you ask me. It alarms me at the lack of regard for ANY sense of morality or even respect for human life. DISGUSTING!
I can only hope this woman becomes sterile and never is allowed the opportunity to raise a child. Disgusting!
how about someone kill her……..or something and preserve HER body
I think she is a severely troubled person. It is unthinkable that she would purposely abort HUMAN BEINGS, not fetuses for supposed art. I, however, will not judge her because it is not my place. I am troubled by the situation. It disgusts me
I am all for women's right to choose as well, but this girl should be shot. This is not art, it is socially iresponsible and cruel. What a cunt.
I am all for choice, but this is sick and not even slightly artistic.
I hope she is unable to ever conceive again b/c she doesn't deserve it.
sick! there'll be a special place in hell all for here… in a shape of a cube!
This does not help the pro-choice campaign in the least bit. If people are gonna do stupid careless shit like this, how can we ever expect even liberal-minded people to be ok with abortion?
I AM DISGUSTED WITH HUMANITY.
I am amazed that someone calls killing babies art!I am shocked!
what the hell is wrong with her??? wow…i'm just speechless now…i can't even comment anymore…
Aboslutely horrifying. As someone who has gone through an unwanted pregnancy and abortion as a teenager, I am appalled at this. To talk so flippantly about having multiple miscarriages or abortions is completey unbelieveable and offensive. This exhibit should be banned.
this girl will pay the karmic price…
this is horrible,
a person like her deserves to rot in hell and be tormented for murder for the rest of her life,
oh and perez…right to choose? thats disgusting, right to kill is what that it,
how can ANYONE be pro -death (pro-choice)
and this is not art,
art would be tying her up at a gallery and watching her starve to death and suffer
As someone who has personally suffered a miscarriage.. This 'woman' is a sick bitch.
dat's just SICK! she's going to hell for sure…she should be charged for MURDER!
SICK!!!!!
I think she should check into the local 51-50 clinic ASAP!!!
Re: meeg – Yes
With.great internal conflict, I support a woman's right to. chose. But this is abusing a right - minimizing the reality that she is intentionally creating life with the sole purpose of destroying it.It is an arrogant mind-set and very disturbing. No one - those who support or stand in opposition to abortion - should view this act as anything other than it is…a selfish, ego-centric attempt for attention, which borders on criminal. It's a shame.
This women is just plain fucked up.
This woman is intelligent. No matter how much of a "wrong" "disgusting bitch" she is, she's a genius. She's helping ALL of you to see where you draw the line with pro-choice, because you obviously never thought of this. She knew what she wanted, and she's getting it. It's genius.
I believe this is horribly, horribly wrong.. but wow, she's really smart.
And as for everyone saying, "I hope she burns in hell", fuck you guys. Wishing someone eternal suffer or death is against the commandments that you oh-so-holy hoes are all for. Either way, you're not God, you have no idea where anyone goes once they die. Who are YOU to say she's going straight to hell? Shove it up your ass.
how does she not even consider what the babies she's killing could have potentially become? what a waste of life.
That is one fucked up bitch to kill innocent life for "art"? I hope she gets kicked out and rots.
This is absolutely disgusting. People suffer misscarrages everyday and it must be such a painful experience emotionally and for someone to force themselves to misscarrage in the name of 'art' is just sick. What kinda of person can be so careless about the life of those babies she's aborting. True, the baby probably isn't developed enough to be called a 'person' but to freely abort like that…. I am really shocked that another woman could take something that many hold as such a sacred experience and create something truely disgusting. I am ashamed to say I am of the same species as that 'monster'
this is truly selfish!!!! there are poor woman out in the world who cannot physically have children and SELFISH morons like this are murdering the precious gift of life and get away with it…………..she should be imprisoned…………art is beauty THIS IS BARBARIC!!!!!
I have no words to descibe how i feel. This woman should be put in jail. She's not human. She's an evil person and i take comfort knowing she'll get what's coming to her.
Sick and disgusting. Purposely creating life to then kill it…sounds like shes trying to play god…Karma bitch…Karma!
THIS IS HORRIBLE!
Who in their right mind would call this ART?
WTF was she thinking, She better hope that she didn't screw up her chances of having children with this "art" project.
She is the reason activist want to take away a women right!!! Both her and the donors are SICK people!!!!
To me this is murder and she should be charged its sick and twisted… and for them to show it makes it even worse!