I know I should probably write about the Democratic Debate last night, and I will only say a few words on that. It really sounded like Hillary swept it, she came across as clear and very experienced. Barack stuttered a lot and had his own words used against him, but it was a very interesting watch. Now onto the headliner.
I was surfing the web when I came across a story about a Yale Art Student who graduates this year and her final project. Aliza Shvarts is a very opinionated student, pro-creativity, art, feminism, abortion. Why should I mention the latter? Shvarts inseminated herself and made it into her project, yes this is a nine month long pregnancy video done with a splash of creativity. Sounds innocent and beautiful right? Wrong. She took abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. You may want me to stop right there but her project also contains viles of her miscarriages blood.
“I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,” Shvarts said. “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.”
The only thing that she didn’t do is pay the sperm donors for their services. She only required them because she needed to take tests for STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). What’s amazing is that in the end she doesn’t care what those drugs did to her body, both in ability to become pregnant again or any other side affects. Her art teacher however, LOVED this project idea but knew a lot of people out there were very disturbed by it. I wonder why? She failed to go to a doctor because she thought since the drugs were herbal and legal that she didn’t need to go.
The display of Schvarts’ project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts’ self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.
What do you think of this? A lot of Yale students, students from other campuses and other people in general think she took her constitutional right of her body way too far, think its morally wrong, and don’t think she should be so open about. Discuss.
Exhibit will be open April 22-May 1 in Holcombe T. Greene Jr. Hall on Chapel Street
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24513
Tags: abortion, art student, miscarriage, Yale
