Cultural decay (UPDATED) (TWICE) (THRICE) (LAST TIME)

Verum Serum brings us the latest sign:

This story is everywhere today:

Beginning next Tuesday, (Yale Senior Aliza) Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

If you have any question about what kind of person thinks abortion is art, you can watch this video of Aliza speaking at a “Soapbox Event.”

Notice how she speaks for almost five minutes without saying a single thing which is new, profound, or artfully phrased. It’s almost as bad as watching Bill Maher.

Multiple self-induced abortions on video.  And she calls it art.  And somehow an institute of higher learning has, either implicitly or otherwise, encouraged it.

This is beyond sick.  It's evil.

Welcome to today's liberalism.

UPDATE: The Anchoress opines (and I love that she and I are on the same wavelength as to what to call this):

The “forced miscarriages” should be rightly called “self-induced abortions.”

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If the story is true, pray for this young woman; she is in serious, serious trouble. This poor young woman is apparently so much a product of the world and the secularist mindset that she has lost touch with her own understanding of her body, her sexuality and her humanness as something more than tissue and utilitarian mass.  How hopelessly bleak.

Mrs. BH and I were commenting tonight as we walked the dog how criminal it seems that someone as dope-headed as this idiot is likely to live for 75+ years while young children elsewhere die of cancer.

MORE: Wow... speaking of being on the same wavelength, Cartago Delenda Est with a post he titled "A Crime That Cries Out To Heaven For Vengeance".

ONE MORE: From Michelle:

Yale’s art department has sure come a long way.  Here’s the work of a guy who went there to study art in the 1800’s:

That’s Frederic Remington’s A Dash For The Timber.  It’s about macho gay cowboys who are fleeing the persecution of heteronormativity.  I believe the medium was oil on canvas, but it may have been menstrual blood on human skin.  I’ll have to check on that.

HOAX: AP reports it's all a joke:

A Yale University art student duped the student newspaper with a story about inducing repeated abortions on herself and using the blood for her senior art project, the school said Thursday.

The story about Aliza Shvarts' project, published Thursday in the Yale Daily News, swept across blogs and media outlets - including the Drudge Report, Fox News and The Washington Post - before Yale issued a statement saying it investigated and found it all to be a hoax that was Shvarts' idea of elaborate "performance art."

"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.

Shvarts'"performance art" included visual representations, a news release and other narrative materials, Klasky said. When confronted by three senior Yale officials, including two deans, Shvarts acknowledged that she did not seek any abortions.

Shvarts told the student paper that she planned to display a work that consisted of a cube lined with plastic sheets with a blood-and-petroleum-jelly mixture in between, onto which she would project video footage of herself "experiencing miscarriages in her bathroom tub."

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Groups both for and against abortion rights expressed outrage over the affair.

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

Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, an anti-abortion group, said his anger was not mitigated by the fact that Shvarts was never pregnant.

"I'm astounded by this woman's callousness," he said. "There are thousands of women in this country who are dealing with the pain of having had an abortion, with the trauma of having suffered a miscarriage. For her to make light of that for her own purposes is just beyond words."

A truly sick young woman.  Sick.

Comments

[vanderleun]

Except.... it is not exactly a hoax after all. See my page.

[tim]

Hoax, no hoax. What Rick said still stands, "A truly sick young woman".

[thomasdosborneii]

Is there really such thing as "abortifacient" herbs to induce miscarriages that anybody can just go and get? If so, then why do people go to all the trouble, expense, and risk of going to a doctor and having an abortion? People can just do it "self-serve," as this young lady apparently was able to do numerous times in a row--which I don't believe (I'd also like the, or several, supposed sperm donors to step forward and identify himself or themselves). This does sound like a hoax to me, because I think it is impossible. And one thing for sure, the woman has definitely provoked lots of discussion and therefore must have achieved her objective. As for me, I can't quite figure out what she was trying to demonstrate one way or another, but I'm not sure that she is trivializing abortion like so many people seem to think. Instead, she's made the idea of it hugely disgusting and repellant, which might have actually been her point (and artists aren't supposed to explain themselves, anyway, they let their work speak for itself). Regardless, figuring it out makes my head hurt. I'd rather go the Western Museum of Art near me and see more art like the Remington one, above. Maybe that's what I actually will do tomorrow!