Yale Senior Gets Pregnant, Induces Abortion for ‘Art’ [Updated - Hoax?]

I realize there is no necessary connection between the seminary and this sad, sad lady - but I would love to know if Yale Divinity School and Yale-Berkeley have made any public statements about this senior’s “art project.” I don’t see how any theological academy could NOT have an opinion about something so repugnant to Christian ethics ...

I could have given her topics that would have saved her a lot of effort.

Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison.

how unremittingly pathetic this is, and how cheap we have made life when creating and destroying a human life becomes an “art project.” I love art and I am open to new forms of art, but this is not art. It’s a mental problem.

I just read the entire article at the ale newspaper site, and this is actually true.  I cannot believ this is a true story.
God help us.

And when told about Shvarts’ project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock — saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

Perhaps there is a small light here.  It shows that even those on the pro-abortion side have a limit.  Perhaps this could be an opening in a conversation (for the purpose of converting) that shows that the moral question is not that much different than other abortions.  This lady got pregnant by choosing to artificially inseminate herself, knowing that if she got pregnant she would abort.  Others get pregnant by choosing to have sex, knowing that if they get pregnant the will abort.  What’s the difference (besides degrees).  If one is wrong, so is the other.

If you choose to have sex, you have made your choice.  Take responsibility for the results.

The “discourse” it should inspire is how to get her the psychological and spiritual help she needs.  May she come, someday, to an understanding of the gravity of what she has done.

John 11:35

Quite apart from the moral issue, this sounds horribly dangerous to me.  No physician would support such a “project”.  There could be serious health risks involved.

This is a portrait of the face of evil.  It is truly art, put out there to show the depravity of life outside the Creator.  This is a declaration of power over life and death- the claim of the enemy.  Look and it and know your enemy.  It is as real as the children sacrificed to it.

The “art” here is the same art employed by the man who shot John Lennon—namely doing whatever it takes to get 15 minutes of fame.  She managed to find something that wouldn’t put her away in jail for the rest of her life.  Both individuals are probably seriously mentally ill and deserving of our pity and prayers.

Her advisor should be fired on the spot.

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.

It could have been worse.  At least it’s not in HD Digital.

Catholic Mom, Leonard Pitts wrote a column on this kind of “fame” - with regard to the teenagers who beat up a girl and videotaped it so they could be “famous” on YouTube. He said we have lost the distinction between “fame” and “notoriety.” To some people these days, one is just as good as the other. And no matter how much we deplore their stunts - they get what they “paid” for - the notoriety, which is “glory” to them.

Boola-boola.
I doubt that YDS and/or Berkeley would say anything much publicly.  As a YDS graduate, I can verify that the instituion is very inclusive, progressive, and sympathetic to the left generally.  They might say something like the art exhibit is in bad taste, but I doubt whether they would say anything that would appear to deny a woman’s “right” to abortion.

From the Litany of The Sacred Heart of Jesus

Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the World, have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father, have mercy on us.
Heart of Jesus, formed in the womb of the Virgin Mother by the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.

How long oh Lord must the cries of the preborn go out to Thee?  How long oh Lord shall this nation continue to flee from repentence?  May the innocents whose blood was shed upon the altar of greed and lust be welcomed into your Kindgom.  May all the orders of Heaven and all Your saints sing of their martyrdom.  May Your loving arms enfold them so that in Your heart they may always rest.
Clothe them Oh Lord in the white robes of purity.  They were denied this mortal life but now have eternal life with You oh Lord.  Our Hope and Our Salvation.  Amen.

Is her god named Baal?
I’m close to feeling sick right now. It’s amazing to me that Yale lets this happen—it’s all about academic freedom, right? Right?

This is Romans 1 ( THere I go, using some obscure passage again…) taken to its ultimate and frightening apex.  Humanity, apart from God is broken and bereft at its best, and sub-mammalian at its worst.

This is art? Hardly. I’ll tell you what it is…......pure unadulterated Evil…..and a mockery of God’s creation. May He have mercy on her soul. Absolutely reprehensible and incomprehensible behavior. Once again…..just when you thought you had heard and seen it all, some moron like this comes along to “top” it.

this is one of the most disturbing things i’ve read in a very long time. it takes a lot for news to upset me and this did.

however, one thing to keep in mind…as pro-lifers, this could actually serve our cause as a perfect example of what the legalized horror abortion is. i doubt this girl intended it to be like this…but what is most shocking about this story is that it is completely legal. this story perfectly proves the absolute insanity of abortion. completely within “the confines of legal” as my friend put it, and yet completely horrifying.

this story actually proves the pro-life point. i doubt this girl gets that. note that she completely missed the relationship between politics and art, discussing instead art and the body. god help the world of art if this is what “top schools” are producing.

also interesting to note that “discourse” is used as the justification for this…as if any event, no matter how horrifying, can be at least salvaged by discussion…i’m not against discussion, and clearly horrific events must be discussed. but what is most shocking here is that discourse is used as justification.

overall, not only is the thing in itself horrifying, some of the implications of this seem as bad if not worse.

i should say that she did not “completely miss” the relationship between politics and art, but rather she spouted a lot of the same old rhetoric about art as medium for politics, which is about as bland and completely-missing-the-point summation as you can get.

i.e., she’s a complete tool.

Why is this not under the “Fresh Hell” banner?
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“The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body”

That’s what they always say. But try having a real dialogue with them and you find out otherwise.

Oscewicee [#14] and Catholic Mom [#11] draw rightly point to other fruits of this sort of thinking.

Micah Towery [#21]: “Art as a medium for politics” is far healthier than art as a medium for ATROCITY POSING AS PROFUNDITY (as I suspect you agree).

I too am a YDS-Berkeley grad, and would echo the comments of DaveW above.  There may well be individual students and faculty appalled by this (in fact, the dean is a Roman Catholic layman, and may have something to say if asked).  Doubtful if anything public will be posted - the student is not, it seems, enrolled at the Divinity School.  The timing is interesting, however, with Pope Benedict’s visit.  Have to admit I am very sympathetic with the recent denouncements by the RC Church of a “culture of death” in our society.  A better example could not be found.

#24
i definitely agree. the explanations she gave for this (not to mention the act itself) seems to confirm the fact that not only is this atrocity, it’s just bad art.

I almost didn’t read this….the headline was bad enough.  Now part of me wishes that I had not.  It’s worse than I imagined, I had thought that she had gotten pregnant, once, the usual way and she had decided that, “what the he**, I might as well make an art project out of this”.  In my most disturbing nightmares, I would have never taught that such a detestable act would be done by the most vile.

In the past few years, I have used words such as incredible, appalling, and such, that they have lost their meaning.  One feels the need to make up a new word deplorable evil..it is just another form of Moloch, which LORD YHWH called an abomination.

How much you want to bet that this creature is a militant anmimal right activists and/or environmentalist?  She’s probably a vegan as well.  No doubt, a “good” girl from a “good” family.

We don’t need one more aborted baby….we don’t need one more young man and young woman who embraces evil unable to recognize the poison they drain.  It’s times like these I long to hear Gabriel’s horn and to see the True Advent.  It’s time to see it and say “Lo, he comes in clouds descending!”

Marantha.  Oh LORD, in your mercy.  Marantha!

Moloch lives. Someone should drag her off the street and exorcise the demon within her.
AP+

#8 Thank you, Hosea. I think that says it all.

Shvarts emphasized that she is not ashamed of her exhibition, and she has become increasingly comfortable discussing her miscarriage experiences with her peers.

All is well!  No harm, no foul!  She is not ashamed!!  That makes it perfectly all right, correct? 

Correct?  [Do I hear an “Amen!” out there???]

This young woman has some serious mental problems if she is comfortable with what she has done. This was not Art; it was unmitigated Evil.  I am tempted to hope that she has damaged her reproductive system so that she can never bring a child into the world. She is, in my not so humble opinion, definitely not a candidate for the description of a “fit mother for a child.” This yo-yo needs intensive psychiatric care. Her adviser is also a candidate for mental therapy in my book.

This is a mockery of both Art and education. It is a celebration of the destruction of narcissism taken to the extreme. Any takers on whether she will be a future recipient of any NEA grants??

We’ve seen “the banality of evil” regularly, but as an exemplar of “the incredible stupidity of evil” this actually surpasses even what we’ve been seeing from 815.  A remarkable achievement.  Pardon me now; I don’t want to be ill all over the keyboard…

Why is this not under the “Fresh Hell” banner?

While it certainly qualifies as hellish, “Fresh Hell” is reserved for that particularly Anglican/Episcopalian brand of offenses against God, good taste and decency.

Lord have mercy. Turn from her wickedness and bring to repentance Aliza Shavrts, and bring not upon us the judgement we most justly have deserved….

This is surely a hoax.

The Stand Firm team and I rarely agree, but this is very different.  I just sat and stared at my computer screen for a few minutes, completely shocked and horrified.  While I would disagree with calling the young woman herself evil, what she has done is terrible.  I want to say it is evil, but I do not feel that I have sufficiently thought out what the nature of evil is to use that word. 

To DaveW, I, like Yale, am “inclusive, progressive, and sympathetic to the left,” but I seriously doubt many inclusive, progressive, left-wing people would approve of this.  Even if you think that abortion, in some circumstances, might be acceptable, very few people think abortion is a good thing.  Those who get abortions do so because the pregnancy was unintended or because there is some major problem, but to bring life into the world with the sole purpose of destroying it for art’s sake is very, very wrong.

Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy

Gregg, do you mean Shvarts is NOT Episcopalian?  I’d be shocked.  I mean is this really so far off from some of what we’ve seen with respect to abortion in our church—where it is in fact celebrated?  Is is really so far off from some of the antipathy toward children and those who choose a vocation rearing them that we’ve seen reported here on this site?  Shvarts may be less tasteful, but I’m not sure her low regard for life in its essence really differs measurably from some of the shriller “pro-choice” types in the Episcopal Church, who treat abortion as if it were a sacrament.  Shvarts says she does this for art’s sake; the pro-choice types do it for convenience’s sake.  Why is one more morally acceptable than the other?  Is her brand of infanticide really somehow worse than those who exterminate innocent babies because they simply intrude upon their “lifestyle”?

This is surely a hoax.

  Actually, I’m starting to suspect this as well.  Is it possible that the “art” project is really to say that she did something unthinkable and then to see what people say about it?  The actual logistics of what she says she did are pretty difficult.

Chase, 
I know those who are prochoice and those who are prolife have very real and serious differences about abortion. But I honestly can not imagine even the most radical pro choicer defending abortion rights because hey fetal blood makes a nifty art project.

I do not agree but acknowledge the pro choice amongst us to not support abortion in a moral vaccuum.  They honestly believe in many cases abortion is the moral choice for a women.  With the exception of the most radical they do not just dismiss the fetus or embryo as some unfortunate by product of conception.  They just believe the mother’s freedom has a higher moral value than the preborn’s life.

What this carbon based life form should rightly disgust all persons regardless of their stance on abortion.  It should not only be read has a condemnation of abortion but as a condemnation of how much we as a society have been seduced by the idols of this age.

“This is surely a hoax”

The Yale Daily News has published plenty of hoaxes over the years but the article betrays none of the indicia of a hoax (e.g., the studied cleverness that becomes apparent once you recognize the hoax). A hoaxer would probably have found some way to connect the artrociy with the papal visit.

I pray it is a hoax, Catholic Mom. But even if it is, now that the “unthinkable” has been thought, it will eventually be done. Permission has been given to take “art” to the next level.

<a href=“http://slanehill.blogspot.com/”>slanehill<a>

#22 - right on.

She has purposely created and then murdered multiple human beings to do a freaking ART PROJECT??  Those were her CHILDREN, her PARENT’S GRANDCHILDREN. 

She should be locked up and the key thrown away.  I am not kidding - she should be in prison.  The death penalty isn’t good enough for her.

I am sick to my stomach.  Seriously.  God have mercy on her soul - if she has one. 

Jesus, I pray you will open her eyes to her sin.  Let her understand what she has done so she can repent, be forgiven, and become a new creation through Your love.

It looks like a few other news sites are carrying this, so if it is a hoax, it’s bordering on being out of hand.
There’s no comment I or anyone else can make on this.  Repulsive doesn’t begin to cover it.  But I don’t think she’s mentally ill.  I’d guess she’s actually very bright.  And very well indoctrinated in our culture’s illness.  Put the two together and you have someone who can and naturally will take it all to the next logical step.

And she’s Jewish, to boot.
Every Jewish woman who died in a labor or concentration camp is weeping.

Those who think it may be a hoax are starting to surface.
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But to even say these things.  I can’t comprehend even thinking up such a thing to claim to have done.  I guess her purpose is to shock.  Perhaps she will make a collage with people’s responses and that will be her art project.  Or maybe she is not an art major at all and it is some other kind of project.

http://www.lifenews.com/state3134.html
Sorry, just cut and paste.  Not sure wha I did wrong.

Or link.  Oh, my goodness.  No technical smarts here!

I hope it is a hoax. It would be a considerable relief. But I suppose it’s indicative of Western culture that this is even conceivable as anything other than a nightmare.

hmmm…
reminds me of the 2006 satire, “Art School Confidential”, written by Daniel Clowes and directed by Terry Zwigoff.
Midway through the film, the main character, an art school student called Jerome, befriends a serial murderer whose victims are the subjects of his twisted, morbid art.
Desperate to become “the next Picasso”, as well as, to win the admiration of a girl, Audrey, Jerome steals the murderer’s works and passes them off as his own. Ultimately he finds himself at the center of a manhunt.

There’s more to the film, of course, but for our purposes, I thought I’d share this with you. Among the many differences between this *fictional universe* and outs, the film upholds the precept that murderers must be held accountable.

“I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”

So art is supposed to be about becoming pregnant on purpose and killing babies?  And I thought Hannibal Lecter was a fictional character—does he have a real relative running around New Haven? 

“It was a private and personal endeavor”...

Not if you’re splattering it all over a public gallery for display. 

It’s bad enough that any woman would do this.  It’s worse that Yale has let her do it. 

Years ago I was accepted at an Ivy League school but could not go there due to the fact that my parents emotionally and financially blackmailed me out of the possibility.  In retrospect I’m glad I didn’t go…if this is also “free speech”, I hardly want any parts of that, either…

Anybody involved in this or condoning it should be on their knees.  For shame…

AS someone above mentioned, surely there were health concerns about such a dubious proceeding. Would a faculty adviser really have let her do this? Multiple times?

Quite aside from the abortion issues, which are clearly present and clearly intended, I wonder at the working definition of “art” the young woman has apparently learned.  I realize I am a dinosaur, but clearly the working definition has changed, at least at Yale.

FWIW
jimB

That’s easy, jimB. Art=shock. These young folks are so subtle and nuanced. :-(

After reading some of the skeptics here, I have to wonder out loud as well…I’m not a doctor, but really, how easy is it to get yourself pregnant by artificial insemination—unless she had means of a non-sexual sort (i.e. inside help at a clinic) it does seem rather remote. Anyone with more knowledge of this want to chime in?

DavidSH - That’s what rang my “hoax” bell also.  Is it really possible to artificially inseminate oneself?

Yes, I did wonder how she could artificially inseminate herself several times - and is it that easy to get drugs to induce “miscarriage”?

while i appreciate prochoice disgust at this, the fact is there is no way they can reasonably denounce this on the terms they’ve used to justify abortion. safe legal and rare is a nice sentiment but that’s all it is…it is not inherently regulative given the typical prochoice rhetoric. that is, their reasons used to justify safe and legal are not coherent with rare. rare is a sentiment used to deflect stories like this one which show the inherent selfishness of abortion as necessity.  there is no difference between this and the many medically unecessary abortions that take place every day except they
are concentrated in a single person.

i would like to hear one convincing prochice denouncement of this. i don’t think it can be done unless a completely new rhetoric of choice is created.

no idea of whether this is a hoax but when not for say, physical health reasons, when is abortion ok? folks might think abortion not in good taste as art, but when is it in good taste? even if this news is a hoax, the point being made is the unfettered right of conception and abortion belongs, unchallenged to one class of human, women.

i can certainly imagine how someone could ‘catch’ and deposit what would be necessary to get lucky. why someone would want to put their body through this for art is beyond my imagination. but it gets back for me to the right to do whatever one wants to do. something like that would have to be a reason for broadcasting what could have been a personal  and private choice. Art? Naw, just sensation or spectacle. It seems Jesus didn’t go for spectacle. Our age seems to crave it.

I googled Yale University and emailed them. We all need to do so.  The email I used was listed as the assistant to the Administrator.  Tell them what you think and what you think of Yale for allowing such disgraceful conduct.

(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

As I said in my email this is outright premediated murder.
GrannieKay

While we all are continuing to discuss the implications of this perverse art project (which is bad enough if it’s a hoax and much worse if it’s not), I want to call attention to another perverse and evil act that hasn’t yet been highlighted by a separate thread on SF, even though it’s been up over at T19 for hours.

I’m referring to the awful fire that took place last night in Uganda, where a girl’s dormitory at the Buddo Girl’s School near Kampala was destroyed.  Alas, it looks like arson, and 19 girls, ages 9-12, perished in the horrendous fire (along with two adults).  Worse yet, it appears that some of the doors were locked from the outside before the fire was started, amking it an even more wanton act of murder.

I hope SF soon posts a new thread about this terrible calamity.  It certainly appears that it could be a terrorist act by Muslims.  On the other hand, there had been internal strife recently at the school, according to a BBC report, and some teachers were on strike, so the real cause of this horrendous fire and who is responsible is still unclear.  Interestingly, the secular news coverage (BBC, Fox) hasn’t mentioned that the Girl’s School is a Christian institution.  In fact, it’s run by the Anglican Church of Uganda.

Lord, have mercy.

David Handy+

I have been reading the comments on the Yale Daily website all day—and all of them condemnatory—when this banner showed up as I logged it a minute ago:

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If you believe you have reached this page in error, please contact (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).</blockquote>

Go here this story is a hoax pulled off by a Yale female student: http://www.newsbusters.org/

No, not yet.  This is a rerun of the story that Old Lady linked to upstream: http://www.lifenews.com/state3134.html
If you keep reading after the jump, every statement the author makes is surrounded by qualifiers…

“In fact, if it had really happened, I’d imagine that she might possibly have put her health, or at least her future ability to become pregnant, at risk. But, in truth she was likely never pregnant, she never had any “miscarriages” and there was nothing but common menstrual fluids resulting.”

He states that he hopes it isn’t true, and offers no definitive proof of a hoax.

For God, for country, and for Baal.

The sad thing is that the TEC’s stand on abortion I suppose leaves them OK with this mess.  Wonder what the head priestess thinks of this?

Jamesf

...dunno how reliable any of these sources are, but there is a related development here.

if it turns out this really is performance art, i think it’s fantastic and this student is not a tool at all. i probably wouldn’t still feel comfortable calling it art but i really think it’s done a great job calling the pro-choice rhetoric for its BS.

“She [Aliza Schvartz]stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages.

And I’ll bet anything she did this on the carpet in front of the President’s desk.

Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns.

Ok.  How about the serious mental and physcial health concerns that are raised by a prestigious school allowing the promotion of this trash.

This whole thing is really sick.

I pray that this is a hoax, and that someone, somewhere, “got the wrong end of the stick”. 
That someone would create something as repugnant as this and call it “art” without anyone raising an objection,  is a dammning indictment of what we have become.
Lord, have mercy!

From the Washington Post web site:

A Yale University student’s senior art project, which she said documented her bleeding during repeated self-induced abortions, sparked a protest on campus, an outcry on the Internet, and debates over morality, medicine, art and academia.

And—the project was all faked. Senior Aliza Shvarts told Yale officials yesterday that she didn’t get pregnant and didn’t have abortions. But that didn’t stop an outpouring of emotion as the story spread.

<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041702519.html?nav=hcmodule”>The article:

I’m glad it’s a hoax…still horrible in any case.  But you know, EVERYONE draws a line with regard to what is “right” and “wrong”.  I happen to use the Bible for my line…but isn’t it interesting that this flagrant act even upset our pro-choice “friends”.  They DO have a line that shouldn’t be crossed…just way left of most of ours. 

A Google search for images related to Shvartz gets you “Shitler’s List.” Perhaps appropriately.

Miss Shvarts is now denying the university’s claim that her project was merely “a creative fiction”:
http://yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24528

Ugh.  This is too tasteless and too horrible. If it were true, it could very well mark a woman bound for hell.  I suppose she is probably feeding off all our shock and horror ... and that’s another marker for the kind of appetite in question.  Should get her into a doctrinal program at EDS (Episcopal Demon School).

After all of the digust and upset and the claims of hoax and denial, it would not be inappropriate the to a DNA test on some of the samples to determine if she had been pregnant.  Self insemnination is not that difficult, or haven’t you heard about Melissa Ethridige and the turkey baster?

n an interview Wednesday, Shvarts said the goal of her exhibition was to spark conversation and debate about the relationship between art and the human body.

Has anybody noticed any discussion about the relationship between art and the human body? No? Me neither. So it looks like her project failed under her own terms.

She said her endeavor was not conceived with any “shock value” in mind.

Yeah. Sure. She got her 15 minutes.

Even accepting this is a hoax, what kind of mind, and what kind of culture thinks pulling it is OK?

#78…Gayle “Self insemnination is not that difficult, or haven’t you heard about Melissa Ethridige and the turkey baster?”

One of my notes…it was not that uncommon a ‘try’ prior to what we call artificial insemination now. Actually another track to follow for another discussion has to do with our technologies and money married to yield a few various ends that are all wrapped around this abortion industry.

Even though it appears to be a hoax, she is still evil and she is still a moral reprobate, hoax or for real, there is nothing even remotely funny or tolerable about this. And yes it is totally believable that the decadant art world and the rotted, decayed American higher education system would produce a “artist” who would make “art” from the remains of her abortions. It appears that now they are saying it is merely her menstration, as if that isn’t sick and disturbing, in its own right. Basically what can be said is that this women is a sick and damaged creature and the advisors and faculty at Yale that winked at this are idiots and fools.

Artist says it IS TRUE and the disclaimer is wrong:

Abortion girl has spoken to the Yale Daily News and is denying claims from her own University that her self-induced miscarriages as art piece is an elaborate prank.

Here are some of the LOWlights from her rebuttal:

- Shvarts stood by her project, calling the University’s statement “ultimately inaccurate.”

- But Shvarts reiterated Thursday that she repeatedly use a needleless syringe to insert semen into herself. At the end of her menstrual cycle, she took abortifacient herbs to induce bleeding, she said. She said she does not know whether or not she was ever pregnant.

- “No one can say with 100-percent certainty that anything in the piece did or did not happen,” Shvarts said, “because the nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties.”

- This afternoon, Shvarts showed the News footage from tapes she plans to play at the exhibit. The tapes depict Shvarts — sometimes naked, sometimes clothed — alone in a shower stall bleeding into a cup.

When I read the first story, I figured it was a twisted hoax/publicity stunt. It just didn’t add up. What, she has a private stock of sperm in her fridge and “conveyance” apparatus at the ready? (Plus, the time and desire to effect this over and over again?) Well, she got what she wanted, regardless—attention and notoriety.

this is so far removed from human decency I don’t even know how to comment on such a subhuman “project”

This entire story speaks volumes about how low our culture has sunk. I had to chuckle at the Yale spokesflak’s immediate appeal to “freedom of expression,” as if that invocation legitimizes any action that anyone might undertake in the name of “Art”. Question: Does this mean she could have killed someone and then taken videos of her slicing them open and spreading the entrails around on plastic sheeting (mixed with Vaseline, of course)and that “freedom of expression” would exempt her from any and all accountability - both moral and legal - for her actions?

No sane society should ever buy that argument! This is the same sort of reasoning that brought us the activities of Carl Manson and his troop of Merrie Murderers! Yale should be ashamed of itself, but it will not be. 

So much for “higher education.”

I don’t know whether this story has been addressed on this website but I have some bad news.  This is true.  Imagine the following, knowing it is coming to your town where it will be billed as science education for your children: 
1. a German scientist invents a means to make things out of the human body ... not just lampshades but a preservation of the entire body by injecting plastic into it.  2. Healthy bodies of Chinese political prisoners show up on the stock exchange in the following context:3. A for-profit private museum interest displays them as art in American museums across the country. Identities are partially obscured by flaying of the bodies. 4.  This includes a woman partially eviscerated where you can look into her womb and see her fetus.  It includes the body of a man and a woman engaged in sex.Where is our outrage?  Do you think I am kidding? Both this nightmare and the crazy art woman’s dabbling in ritual obscenities for a school project shows the profound and abiding damage to the moral heart of our society. Here are relevant links but I warn you.  THIS IS NOT A JOKE:
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/Body-and-Soul-10814?page=all

Visitors to Body Worlds who are nervous about encountering prepared cadavers are instantly put at ease by the exhibition’s bright and cheerful tone—and by its humor. These are bodies that appear to be having fun: a skinless rollerblader executes a neat handstand; a basketball player dribbles a ball, dodging a blocker, their muscles visible in palpable tension. Even the macabre is treated with a sense of play, as when a doleful cadaver holds up his own flayed skin as if deciding whether to send it to the cleaners.

Here is the official link to their site: http://www.ourbodytheuniversewithin.com/Lord have mercy!

“It came burning hot into my mind, whatever he said and however he flattered,
when he got me to his house, he would sell me for a slave.”  - Bunyan

monologistos…this is definitely not funny at all. whatever this woman’s agenda, it is pointed and aimed, towards wickedness and destruction. the market in aborted body part uses…this used to be bad sci-fi, now it is promoted. in terms of this blogsite and politic, it is too close for comfort.

I can think of no prophetic witness more eloquent than that of C.S. Lewis in describing the indocrination into hell in his novel, That Hideous Strength:

“Frost was not trying to make him insane; at least not in the sense Mark had hitherto given to the word “insanity.”  Frost had meant what he said.  To sit in the room was the first step towards what Frost called objectivity - the process whereby all specifically human reactions were killed in a man so that he might become fit for the fastidious society of the Macrobes.  Higher degrees in the asceticism of anti-Nature would doubtless follow: the eating of abominable food, the dabbling in dirt and blood, the ritual performances of calculated obscenities.  They were, in a sense, playing quite fair with him - offering him the very same initiation through which they themselves had passed and which had divided them from humanity, distending and dissipating Wither into a shapeless ruin while it condensed and sharpened Frost into the hard, bright, little needle that he now was.”

From Iowahawk. Pretty much says it all.

I understand Mrs. Kennedy; but Mr. Oswald says it was performance art, not an assianation…”