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?
I really hope people don't give this pathetic person attention… Clearly that's what she desperately needs and that's why she did this. I think this is absolutely inhuman and makes me sick! How are some people so screwed up?
One day she might come out of her OBVIOUS mental state and want a child. Hopefully Karma being a real bitch won't let her have one.
That is soo fucking disgusting not to mention completely offensive.. People like this should be shot.
This woman is insane and needs treatment - Who care what it does to her body - she deserves the worst there is for what she has done to the unborn children she destroyed? She must have had a bitch for a mother to hate being a woman and a mother so much.
Abortion as art is extremely appalling. Aliza Shvarts should be prosecuted for the murder of an unborn child. There is a huge difference between having an abortion due to medical necessity or the safety of the mother and getting pregnant for the sole purpose of having an abortion. If this is considered art what we consider the genocide in the Darfur region? What would the concentration camps be considered? Come on are we really going to consider this are???!!! This is a slippery slope that we do not want to get started on!
That is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard. FREAK! Not to mention the damage that f'n idiot has done to her body. What are you going to do when you really WANT a baby and end up with miscarriage after miscarriage? These are the types of shit heads that damage the right for women to choose.
BTW Perez do you have any contact details for her. Like and email address. You always put on the email address whenever someone is bashing gays. You should put on her email address as well. This woman is a murderer
wrong wrong wrong i'm pro choice, but killing something, whatever that might be, over and over again just for some sick artistic idea? how will she feel if she wants to get pregnant years from now only to lose her child from a miscarriage, she wont be so inspired then, just devastated
That is wrong. killing babies that are beginning their life in her womb just for the sake of media exposure?!?! what a psycho bitch. She should get punched in the face. She is abusing the privelege to create life and then destroy it.
I hope she has lots of fans here, because she is surely going to hell for that. Those poor babies that she aborted. How sad for them.
i think i just threw up in my mouth a little
Goddamn! This cunt needs to be fucking slapped upside the head and then given a general beating…then she can do an art project about the human body's response to a fucking smackdown!
i have never read anything so disgusting in my entire life.
this is just wrong. she is purely an idiot.
This just proves that any woman can have her period on her bedsheets and display as art. I think it is all FAKE FAKE FAKE!! If there is a god, she has committed the ultimate sin. She needs to throw herself into a woodchipper feet first!
She's frigging nuts!
"debate on the relationship between art and the human body"
i would love to hear her try to debate how repeated abortions 'relate' to artwork!
"a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."
wtf are they teaching yale art students???
how is this legal.. seriously? hopefully she gets an A?? WTF!!! nutjob.
A prestigious educational institution such as Yale, should have stopped this madness when Ms. Shvarts first proposed her senior art project. As decribed above, her exhibit evicerates the concept of artistic freedom and is, in fact, the poster child for obsenity.
It is apparant that she openly and sadistically mocks a woman's right to choose. Those that must exercise it, do not take the decision lightly and are often scrred emotionally for having to make the decision.
I agree with on of the other posts, that she needs some serious counseling as do those who find any "artistic" value in this condemnation of life.
This is the first time I've ever left a comment here - I'm usually happy just to read and be entertained. But this is disgusting. I'm 100% for a woman's right to choose, but this deliberate manipulation of nature and life is beyond gross. I'm currently pregnant with my first - and I can't even BEGIN to imagine the kind of person capable of this sort of…act.
Re: linny – I would completely agree. Hopefully she has screwed herself up so she can't conceive. I know so many women who have naturally lost babies and even they have problems conceiving again, she doesn't deserve to be a mother. She has no clue. Way to set back the pro-Choice movement back to pre 1973!!!! Re: linny –
What can we expect when we don't respect life?
I am crying right now. This is so sad. I have a 14mos old son, who is my world. Many of my friends have been trying for years to have children. I am pro choice, but this is poor choice.
well PEREZ I am for you on this one no words just ewww
Shame on her - how many people in this world would love to have those children she aborted, willingly. She's a disgusting display of a woman.
Re: roxanne – You cannot be serious!!! I totally agree with the society easily throwing things away BUT this is still not art!!! IF I SHIT ON A CANVAS AND CALL IT ART THAT DOESNT MAKE IT SO!!! BOTTOM LINE, this person will regret this one day.
I lost a very much desired baby to a miscarriage…this woman is a disgusting human being and should be sterilized.
this bitch is disgusting. she literally makes me sick.
Well..who ever said abortion is a hard choice…its not when you know you cant raise a kid. Second..yes this is sick. No she is not a murderer…but she is fucked up.
Too bad she didnt tape the fetuses to the cubes….
come on now people- is this really any worse or different than what millions of stupid women have done or will do?? isnt it just the same thing, women getting pregnant "by accident" , becuase instead of USING AVAILABLE PROTECTION to NOT GET PREGNANT, use ABORTION to NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE RESULT OF UNPROTECTED SEX?
or what of the vatican continuing to "grow its flock" by not encouraging families to be careful about the number of children they have and can realistically can support??
by all means, i am totally pro choice, i beleive in a womans right to choose, and i will never be for taking that choice away. but there are just too many ways to protect ourselves from unwanted pregnancies.
that being said, this is exactly what women do to themselves by not saying no and choosing themselves over, that hot guy, or maybe hell love me, or daddy and mommy didnt love me or what ever other bull reason people abuse themselves by allowing sex to rule them and excuse their behaviors, instead of being strong in spirit.
Her teacher is 'Pia Lindman' and you can find her at this site! PLEASE have your voice be heard! I think Yale needs to know how people really feel about this student and her 'art' project!
As a very, very, very strong pro-choice Artist. I find Shvarts abuse to her body completely sickening. Being a female Artist, who deals with similar issues, there is a fine line between making art that expresses the feminine struggle and going for shock vaule to carry your voice. I find her work completely sophomoric and offensive. It is very common to find art to be self-observed, but this piece doesn't allow the veiwer an option to find a deeper level and connect to in in any way. Conceptually it's a farce and underestimates the intelligence of not only the veiwer, but the Artist also.
this is particularly absurd. I'm shocked. I'm not one to get easily offended, but this is INSANE and nevermind, DANGEROUS. This exhibition should be BANNED
How is she not being charged with murder? There is a huge difference between a woman's right to choose, and what this girl has done. She had the INTENT OF KILLING THE BABIES every time she inseminated herself. Wouldn't a psychologist testify that's some kind of sick behavior? This is disgusting and I'm shocked that this is even being allowed to be exhibited. That's like all those kids that go out and kill animals and become serial killers later, only this is on a totally different level. I am utterly disgusted and hope something is done about this.
Re: Kate – I understand pro choice and why some people choose to abort or whatever (although I couldnt personally do it) but this is like too much, its more than a "mistake" and that she "wasn't ready" or whatever. Why would she purposely do it? I really dont get it.
So horribly sad that I'm truly at a loss for words…..: (
i am discused in this …this woman is sick there are so mant people who cant have children and she is killing hers..does she have no heart ….. i just gave birth to my baby at 17 weeks old and she passed before she was born ….it broke my heart and it still does ….how can she do this ..when so many people like myself would love to have a baby ….shes a fuckin idiot and should be charged with murder….
I agree with suthunbelle!! This is disturbing on so many levels!!
If she's getting pregnant only for the purpose of killing her fetus…wouldn't that technically be classified as pre-meditated murder?
PEREZ, OUT OF EVERYTHING THIS SO-CALLED "WOMAN" HAS DONE & EVERYTHING WE'VE REAS…YOUR COMMENT IS:
"What if she's caused herself serious and permanent damage????"
WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU'VE TAKEN "LIBERAL" TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL…
Why is it that I have PCOS and would give anything for a baby and can't have one, but this stupid cow can impregnate herself and destroy as many babies as she wants to. It's just so unfair. This inhumane beast should be thrown in jail.
total abuse
I'm all for freedom of speech and whatnot, but this really crosses the line. Not only is it really unnecessary (I dont feel like she was really making any kind of point), but it undermines the risks associated with abortions for other people who dont know a lot about it and may see this. Also, if she wants abortion to stay legal and out of the media, this was a really bad idea. Some conservative group is going to pick this up as an excuse to make abortion illegal, which is not fair to people who turn to this option as a necessity for health or medical reasons. I also feel bad for this girl, she obviously has some emotional/mental problems and probably didnt get a lot of attention as a child and now has to stage these kind of things to make up for it.
As a woman, I am disgusted by this sick fuck. There are women in the world who CAN'T get pregnant and can't even afford to adopt, and this sick freak is having kids just to abort them for art??!?!? that is NOT art! she needs to be institutionalized!!!!
Well, it's just dishonoring the right to choose. A right always comes with its set of obligations and obligations in that case, is to use that right wisely.
Getting pregnant ON PURPOSE to get an abortion ON PURPOSE is totally sick. Unfortunately, she did so so we can talk about her and she is succeeding…
On other news, children in Darfur are dying.
I have never once felt the need to comment before but this warrants some attention. This is absolutely appalling!! She has just killed multiple children for the sake of art. In any other instance this would be called a homicide and she would be standing trial and spending the rest of her life in jail. I am all for it is the womans right to choose, but this just crosses that line of a womans choice. I am absolutely disgusted as is my boyfriend who has an art degree and is now a tattoo artist. We come across oddities every day, but this is plain murder!
are you fucking KIDDING me?! let's just create lives and then kill them off. we can call it art. This is offensive, repulsive, and clearly an abusing a women's right to choose. i'm all for striking up conversation and debate on the issues BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS.
It makes me wonder if she's really Pro Life… because she's making a spectacle of a politically-charged (and already endangered) right for women to be able to choose, when they feel it's absolutely necessary, to have an abortion. Someone like this IDIOT who is abusing that right that already hangs in the balance… it really makes me question her ultimate motive.
wtf is wrong with people seriously…she had a baby just to kill it..wtf..wtf..wtf..thats murder, how is that art. you might as well kill somebody and be like hey its art you can't do anyting..ugh thats sick
This is the most revolting thing I've ever heard. I pray it's some sort of publicity stunt. If not, this woman will surely be burning in hell for all eternity.
sick, sick, sick…………….that is not art, the disposal of human life is NOT art! SICKSICKSICKSICKSICKSICKSICKSICK!
This is so disturbing!
I had an abortion and I feel really bad about it. It is my one big shameful act, I did it because I had to. But I like this art because it makes me look like a saint in comparison.
Re: roxanne – Well, I'm disappointed in you for acting is if you're educated, but can not spell or use proper gramatics.
Have you even considered there are other ways to show–what you interpret– her 'art' excuse to be? I mean, c'mon. The ones that believe in her myth and stupidity are just as evil as she is. She's the DEVIL!
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Taking human life for the benefit of "discourse" and "sparking conversation"?? She is sick and a murderer. I sincerely hope she caused damage to her body so she cannot ever get pregnant again. Then later in life when she desperatly wants a baby of her own, she will be forced to think about all the babies she killed. People have sank to a new low.
I wish her mom would have taken some of those pills!
Ok I worked in an abortion clinic and frankly this does not surprise me. I heard all kinds of shit like this even worse, when I worked there. Yeah we live in a very wicked, gross world people! And every mind is its own world! MURDERS like this are committed everyday! and most of the WOMEN if you can even call them that, took this kinda of stuff very lightly like freakin getting a haircut or getting your nails done. NO BIG DEAL! and for the most part this WOMEN with their right to choose! did this to themselves repeatedly! Yeah as in some an abortion every month instead of taking BIRTH CONTROL! so whatever call it art, inconvenience, right to choose. Plain and simple to me ITS MURDER!!!!
THATS IS SOOOOO DIGUSTING!!!!!!!!! Her mother should have aborted her!! The school should not allow that!! Killing is not art!!
I think this girl should rot!!! Being someone who has gone through a
mis-carriage, I could never imagine someone wanting to do it once on purpose let alone 15 different times!!! I hope she actually sits down and think about what she has done. Eventually it will come back to haunt her and she will have tremendous guilt for killing a defense less baby. I am all in for woman's rights but this is just GROSS!!!!!
I am speechless. This is one of the most horrific things I have ever heard of. I wish this was just another Perez rumor. So sad.
This is absurd. You hit the point dead on Perez she's completely abusing a woman's right to choose. This is sick. I believe in a woman's right to choose win an accident occurs or with an unplanned pregnancy but to go through the effort of purposefully creating human life just to kill it……she's a fuckin murderer. This is not art, it's disgusting, attention whoring selfish, spoiled brat, bullshit
I believe in a woman's right to chose, but this is an abuse of that right. All this will do is simply give the fanatical right-to-lifers fuel for their cause. This is murder!!!!
This is so wrong - is there any legal recourse? I am definitely pro-choice but purposely getting pregnant just to kill MUST be a violation of some law - gross negligence for human life at the VERY least.
Seriously…..wtf is this world coming to? I can't beleive this shit is legal.
I'm sorry…actually, no I'm not…THAT IS THE MOST FUCKED UP THING IVE HEARD IN A LONG TIME. This bitch actually got pregnant ON PURPOSE and then KILLED A LIVING FETUS on purpose. I honestly think she should do some time in jail and seek psychiatric help. It's a shame that this fetus (which is HUMAN…and ALIVE) has no rights because it is "Unborn". I see this as some sort of manslaughter, because she did everything PURPOSEFULLY. I can understand "a woman's right to choose" when they did not plan on the pregnancy and it is something devasting to them (getting pregnant) i.e got raped or something. But to know from the very beginning that the sole purpose to get yourself pregnant was so you could document an abortion?!!! SEND HER FUCKED UP ASS TO JAIL!!!
I think I'm gonna go kill someone, cover their body in paint, and call it "Art".
What is our world coming to? Perez is right, people are using "Art" to get by with insanity! I'm sure most of you have heard about the starving dog exhibit where they tied a dog up inches from food so he couldn't reach it and everyone watched him starve to death over a matter of days. SICK!!!!!!!! I hope and pray that this girl is never able to have a baby, I hope she is never blessed with that wonderful experience of being a mother. Anyone that murders (YES MURDERS!!!!!!!!!!) unborn CHILDREN (NOT tissue!!!) for the sake of "art" is a nasty, undeserving waste of life. Artists do not act this way, artists love all life forms, we are able to see beauties in life that some others might not be able to see…she is a fraud and I hope she gets hit by a bus so she can't do this anymore!
Yale should without a doubt fail her, and in my opinion, she should be dismissed. If anything, she should have a psych evaluation before being able to attend classes.
What a disgusting person. She is no better than a Nazi. By that I mean she is experimenting with human life with no regard for the sanctity of life. She's a murderous Nazi. She must have no soul.
this is so horendous, what a sicko!
her mother should have aborted her, she deserves to die. what a sick fucking bitch.
amen to abusing her right to choose. I am all about people being able to have one or two abortions their entire life. But I frown on girls who use them as birth control. This chick is seriously pushing the limits, why is she creating a small form of life, just to kill it in the end? And this chick must also be a lil off her rocker, to be able to get herself pregnant, and then just discard it with seemingly no emotion….. I say if she ever wants to actually have a child… she shouldnt be able too.. that is just so effed up.. btw love u perez!
Re: Patrick M –
Have you ever seen an ultrasound? It is most definitely a person you idiot! Do you have kids? I have 2, and anyone who can go through a pregnancy and say that is not a person from day one is insane!
Is this for real??? She keeps making and killing babies??? OMG So sad — and so heartless.
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yeah
absolutely disgusting.
Having an abortion is something which can't be taken lightly by anyone who has one. If anyone thinks it's no big deal, then I think they're sociopaths.
I have heard from many ANTI CHOICE supporters that the reason abortion should be illegal is because women use it as a form of birth control, and it's an excuse to be careless. This exhibit kinda proves their point.
Abortion is a sad, horrible thing, but IT NEEDS TO BE SAFE AND LEGAL!
it is not art, it is EVIL. how can someone purposely choose to create something living inside of you (creating a SOUL) to purposely kill it, to get a good grade? very evil. i pity her and her extreme lack of respect for life. she must be a very unhappy person if she thinks life can be played with like that. so what if she damages herself, i hope she does, GOOD. but what about these lives she created and killed? this completely disrespects every person who was forced to go through an abortion.
What a kick in the ass to women wanting to have children but can't, everywhere!
A woman thats's now a man having a baby.
A woman killing babies for art.
SOOOO sad
this is disgusting..I don't believe she was doing this in the spirit of being an artist, she was doing this for publicity and for shock value, and oh look it worked. Sucks. Just horrible. what the fuck was she thinking…
her own blood, thats disgustihas mental problemsng and un sanitary and just…ugh i can't even…think thats so nasty…how is that art. i seirously don't get it, she seriously has mental problems…showing a miscarriage with an abortion that killed that baby, thats just…sick sick sick sick, can't believe it
This sounds like another Art Hoax. Does everyone remember the starving dog from last week?
This is disgusting! What a SLAP in the face to every woman in this world who could not get pregnant or carry her own child. For every one of those miscarriages there would have been someone who would have wanted that baby. I am all for a woman's right to choose , it is not my place to tell another woman what to do with her body, but for someone to deliberately get pregnant just to abort it is beyond comprehension. What kind of animal is this woman? And to do all this in the name of ART?? It is NOT Art!!! I think she has also just insulted every other artist in this world. She is a sick sick sick sick person. Did I say sick already?
As somewone who can't have children due to ovarian cancer, I wish I could slap her right back!
totally abusing the right for women to chose, and validating all of the pro-life arguments.
I've never written on this before, but this girl belongs in jail for rightfully killing numerous times, I'm not necessarily pro choice, but I get it at least, this is so wrong because it's a planned pregnancy then aborting/purposefully miscarrying? what the hell? there are women out there that want to have children and can't concieve and this bitch is just throwing potential babies down the drain repeatedly
SERIAL KILLER ALERT.
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Some info:
She is a Yale student, graduating in 08 and her name is Aliza Shvarts. Did anyone go to Yale and could provide the email address format?
patrick #56, you saw that a fetus is not a person…tell me, what does a women give birth to? a car? a tree? no idoit…A HUMAN BEING. people like you and this sick broad will never get it. you will never understand until you die and God shows you where you wne t wrong. I wonder what answer she will give her babies in the afterlife as to why she used and abused them. what would you tell them. think about that as you look at your own children or anybodies children. WAKE UP!
Does this make anyone else's blood boil??!? I hope that "the artist" reads these comments…. I have on for her myself. When you grow up and get your head out of your rectum, you'll realize how precious babies are to women. There are thousands of women struggling to get pregnant (I'm one of them). You have no idea how angry you have made me. I desperately want a child and haven't been able to get pregnant and you're acting like getting pregnant and aborting the baby is some sort of game. You disgust me. I try not to judge people, but you're an exception. I hope there's a special place in hell for people like you.
she is sick. miscarriages are very physically painful and what if the drugs didn't work and she needed a D & C? very crazy, very dangerous, she must have no soul. this is not art. this is discusting. and insulting to people who have trouble conceiving.
i think this is morally wrong it is completely unnatural and it is cause for concern as to what kinda person would use innocent life that was growing and living in her for her own selfiush desires you sick bitch.I hope you burn in hell
I agree with all you said Perez. She is mocking the gift of life and the difficult decisions some have to make. All should boycott her and any future work she does. Just ignore her totally. I believe in karma, and she'll be taken care of in the grand scheme of things.
Kevorkian on crack.
that's disgusting
i don't agree with abortion, but it is one thing to go to a clinic and get one done but it should be illegal to perform it yourself. she should be arrested for purposely getting pregnant to just perform abortions on herself.
just give the republicans another reason to try to get womans rights taken away.
what a crazy gross woman. unless shes mentally retarded or an addict, this will truly haunt her in the future.
This is so terrible. She is killing lives for "art". This is worse that the man who takes pictures of dead and abused dogs. There needs to be less cruelty in this worl and I hope this woman gets what is coming to her.
tacky, disgusting and tasteless.
There is art to provoke, there is art to shock. And then there is stuff that's just really, really fucking gross. And THAT? Is really fucking gross.
#43 Exactly my thoughts. The story of the dog made me so sad and this kid with her overinflated sense of importance and need for notoriety just makes me disgusted. The fake modesty about how she "doesn't intend to scandalize anyone"….what kind of statement is she making then? I do it just because I can? there are women who will do this just because they can? Yeah Dictators and socio-paths do hurtful things just because they can too, doesn't make it right in any sense of the word.
Re: Kate –
Wow. You really think that magically the government and laws will change because a chick smeared her dead baby blood on a cube? Yes perhaps the issue should be re-examined. But isn't it quite hypocritical to have a woman argue for pro-life by purposefully impregnating and then aborting?
i hope she gets crotch cancer.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!
A sick woman. May well be she is one of these anti-abortion fanatics and acts in that perverted way to "direct" the anger and disgust towards ANY woman aborting!
I am PRO right for an abortion after having been advised and spoken to government health doctors as is the law here in Germany. What this woman does by calling it "art" is NOT an abortion. Any abortion is a difficult decision for "normal" women and not something you do as a joke sort of! This artist is mentally SICK! Some attension and fame hoes will do ANYTHING to get their NAME known, as it is now…