Yale Student’s Abortion Performing Arts Project a Hoax? Does it Matter?

  When I first heard the story of the Yale student who was artificially inseminating herself and then aborting the babies for her senior art project I was mortified. As I think any clear thinking, normal individual would be. Now Yale has called the project a hoax. However after reading several articles about this student and of the school’s “apology” I thought the story still deserved to be written about because there is a mentality here that is scary. This is what another art major had to say about the project when he thought it was real. And by the way, the student still insists it is real:

Art major Juan Castillo ’08 said that although he was intrigued by the creativity and beauty of her senior project, not everyone was as thrilled as he was by the concept and the means by which she attained the result.

“I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn’t,”

 He was intrigued by the beauty of the project. Wow! I will describe some of that beauty a little latter on. Is this the type of mindset that is infiltrating American society? Has the value of life reached such a low point in culture that this type of “project is acceptable? Remember, Juan thought the project was real at the time that he made those statements and observations.

 Yale didn’t really apologise for this either, claiming that is wasn’t real but called it performing arts.

“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 Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky.

 So the question remains, did one of the nation’s leading institutions condone this activity? And are they just now trying to cover their asses? According to Shvarts, that is the case.

Shvarts stood by her project and claimed that administrators had backed her before the planned exhibition attracted national condemnation

I’m not going to absolve them by saying it was some sort of hoax when it wasn’t, she said. I started out with the University on board with what I was doing, and because of the media frenzy they’ve been trying to dissociate with me. Ultimately I want to get back to a point where they renew their support because ultimately this was something they supported.

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,” Klasky said.

  So Yale may have known about, and approved of her project. This is what still bothers me about this story, the mindset of the school and the students. Because now that the school has apparently dissassociated itself from Shvarts other students are upset with the school because they feel that this is a first amendment issue. They believe free speech is being repressed because, well I can’t even figure out how they can possibly come to that conclusion. It is just how far left some of these universities and students have turned. So left in fact, that Shvarts’ intent was to show that there is no difference between an abortion and normal menstruation.

“The most poignant aspect of this representation—the part most meaningful in terms of its political agenda (and, incidentally, the aspect that has not been discussed thus far)—is the impossibility of accurately identifying the resulting blood,” she said.

  Remember that while this is being called a hoax, Shvarts did in fact inseminate herself and take the drugs to induce an abortion, so in that regard this project is not a hoax. The intent was there, and she may have infact aborted a baby. We just don’t know because she never took a test.

Beacuse she has admitted that she never took a pregnancy test so she can’t say with certainty that she was ever pregnant she makes the point that blood is blood and it is indistinguishable. So who has the right to say which blood was life and which never was? This is sick. Now it is up to the individual to determine what is life and what isn’t? Life is in the eyes of the beholder?

 When did we get to this point in this country? In a country where is is acceptable to induce labor and birth a baby up to it’s neck and then suck it’s brains out as it’s little arms and legs quiver during it’s last moments of LIFE I suupose I shouldn’t be shocked by this. It is just the next logical step.

 This is so far left that even NARAL found this wrong, now that is saying something!

Ted Miller, a spokesman for NARAL Pro-Choice America, called the concept offensive and “not a constructive addition to the debate over reproductive rights.”

 Now let’s look at the presentation of the project so we can see what Juan above, and others I am sure, thought was so beautiful.

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.

Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathrooom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.

Shvarts, sometimes naked, sometimes clothed, alone in a shower stall bleeding into a cup

 Sounds lovely, doesn’t it?

 I know I have been all over the place in this post, but I just can’t wrap my arms around this story. I can’t for the life of me understand how anything like this could be considered acceptable by anyone. Hell, I can’t even understand how anyone could even think something like this up.

 That is why I think that this story deserves to be written about whether it was a hoax or not. Hoax is the wrong word, she carried out the acts of insemination and abortion inducement, we just don’t know if she was pregnant. It shows us how far people are willing to go to push an agenda. It shows us the mindset ot the far left. It shows us the mindset that is acceptable in our most prestigious higher learning institutions. These are supposed to be the smartest students among us and this is how they think. These students are our future. I fear for the future of our country.

 And that is why I had to write about this.