Thank you for setting the pro-choice movement back about 50 years, Aliza.

*read that with a huuuuuge amount of sarcasm.

yeah… I have a friend who was asked to "donate" to her project - to his credit, he didn't. way to go, you *insert any profanity here* Aliza

I can't follow her, shes too all over the place. im convinced that she doesnt even know what she talking about, and my favorite part is whent he camera films the lady in the red shirt with t he white emblem, black coat and sunglasses looking at her like "fucking dumbass"

Wow - I hope she never REALLY wants to get pregnant. I think only then will she realize how much life she wasted. I understand some women get abortions for their own reasons…but this was just hideous. She was creating life with the intention and hope of throwing it away. It's sick.

As a mother of two, this breaks my heart. A miscarriage is heartbreaking…this girl has some bad karma coming her way. Again, let's hope she didn't totally screw up her chances of ever having a baby - or, actually - let's hope she did.

Money can't buy quality esoteric cognitives.

On another tangent; who the F&%k gets an art degree from Yale? I'd say its a waste of money but this twat is singlehandedly keeping the herbal abortion industry afloat (and who knows how many jobs that provides!)… so I guess its a toss up?

The arbitrary waving-about-of-arms reminds me of "The Office" episode where Dwight gives a speech at the paper convention: "The wheels of history are moved by blood alone!"

"Rights…institution…hegemony…power…patriarchal…selfhood…art…-isms…empowerment…like…and, you know…"

This is what one of our nation's "best schools" is turning out?

chez - being a) sociopathic and b) a hipster to the nth degree will destroy any true cognitive functioning. most of the people there sound more intelligent, promise.

yeah, i just hope the people who were smart enough to name the anti-choice movement 'pro-life' (thus directly implying the opposite to be … well, the opposite) don't get ahold of this information. they'll go to town. and they'll do a good job. and i'll be sadder than i already am for women.

chezsan you forgot heteronormative.

in high school a teacher once said "never use a silver dollar word when a quarter will do… you sound like an ass." He was right.

I mean I guess her art did create a debate: whether she is a complete waste of water or whether she is a complete fuckwad.

Thanks Aliza, for taking away the point (and it is usually scoffing) that I make in abortion debates: that no-one has abortions for fun. No-one wakes up and thinks "hmm today I will get pregnant so I can have an abortion." She must be insane, for real.

Her parents must be so proud. If I were them I'd be at Yale demanding my money back.

i don't know. i'm having a hard time believing all of this is completely true. maybe it's just because i don't want to believe that someone could basically be a serial killer for the sake of "art".
(and i don't believe women who have abortions are killers. only those who do it simply to display the bloodied sheets at an "art expo")

What a hack. This shit would never fly at RISD.

At this moment, I am so happy I didn't get into Yale.

Too bad her mother didnt miscarry her. What a sickening thing to do.

I'm calling bs on this one. Someone wants attention.

can somebody find out where this girl lives so i can go beat her with a very large stick?

Maybe her real point is that we don't know much about abortions or RU-486 or miscarriages. How many times could she repeat the process (get pregnant, knowing she's pregnant, miscarry/abort, cycle returns to normal, get pregnant again) over 9 months? So maybe this is all a sham?

That aside, couldn't she have just written an essay rather than having abortions for fun?

Oh, gosh, "heteronormative"! What a kick!

I just hate the buzzwords of the pseudo-intellectual. She sounds exactly like thousands of other 'educated' kids coming out of these schools. There are ways to talk about serious issues with sounding like a PC ass.

She was a girl from New Haven
she just had an abortion
she made an art of of insanity
her name was Aliza she lived in a tree

She was a no-one who killed her baby
she sent her letters from the country
she was a fine arts major
she was a bloody disgrace

Body I'm not an animal
Mummy I'm not an abortion

Filmed in a bathroom at the laboratory
illegitimate place to be
in a packet in a lavatory
die little project screaming

Body screaming fucking bloody mess
it's not an artwork it's an abortion

Body I'm not an animal
Body I'm not an abortion

Throbbing squirm, gurgling bloody mess
I'm not a discharge I'm not an A in
Poli Sci I'm not an act of empowerment
Ah!

Fuck This and fuck that
fuck it all and fuck the fucking brat
She don't wanna baby that looks like that
I don't wanna baby that looks like that.

Body I'm not an animal
Body I'm not an abortion

Mummy! Ugh!

-With apologies to the Sex Pistols

wtf is this true? … really, I think she should be arrested for that. Is her art being displayed at Yale? Then they should be penalized too. I'm not anti-abortion but this is so sickening. Her talk of the 'individual' is laughable. She's dressed like most of the pseudo-intellectual hipsters today and she's making art for shock value. I don't find anything innovative in that. And what does she consider the lives she intentionally termiated? Those babies would have grown up to 'individuals' but she made the decision to end their lives for them. What a callous human being.

"…you know, when people get up and just talk really quietly, none of us care, none of us can hear them…"

My dear, you have nothing to say and your are saying it far to loudly.

ok, still a pretentious ass, BUT the university has apparently talked to her and it was all fake.

in which case, why did she bother getting "donors", or telling people her senior project would "get her kicked out of Yale" but she couldn't say what it was?

honestly, I'm not sure just who I buy.

i hope this is fake. this is the most disgusting thing i've ever heard of.

Statement by Helaine S. Klasky — Yale University, Spokesperson
New Haven, Conn. — April 17, 2008

Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She 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. 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.

She is an artist and has the right to express herself through performance art.

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

I think they are too quick to rule out "serious mental health concerns."

like i said. of course, if the point was to draw attention to the ambiguity yadda yadda, then she should get a C, tops, because she failed miserably at that.

it's fake? ok, that makes me want to beat her with two large sticks. you do not joke about stuff like that. what the hell is wrong with people?

I think she failed and should get the marks of a failure. If her goals were to explore the form and fucntion of a woman's body, I do not see how she addressed the form issue, and, as a woman, I am pretty sure that my body has functions other than miscarriage.

File under weird but true and actually on point.

At the forefront of the more radical feminist/choice movement in the early '70s some women's groups actually advocated at-home abortions monthly. It was like a knitting circle of sisters spreading wide for a monthly roto-rooter empowerment session. I actually watched the how-to video at my liberal, liberal arts college. Would you consider this different? Maybe, it was advocated as birth control and not meant to only go after fertilized eggs, but at the end of the day it seems pretty sick in our modern clean world where we like our abortions taken cleanly with a few little pills.

Discuss amongst yourselves . . .

Yes, it's all a SCAM!!

She still needs to go to Hell in a hand basket.

Serious mental health concerns? I thought it was our bodies our selves. Seriously, if she did do it then I would find it highly disgusting and objectionable, but for it to "raise serious mental . . . health concerns" is a bit paternalistic - no?

I think when people repeatedly put their body through unnecessary trauma, others naturally question their mental health. I think if the school actually stated that she had mental health problems, then their statements would be on the verge of paternalistic?

"serious mental and physical health concerns"

Yeah, to even think that this might be a good art project shows that this imbecile definitely has major, major problems.

I agree that people have the right to express themselves, but this is absolutely offensive and insensitive not just to the unfortunate women who privately suffer from miscarriages and struggle to make the decision to terminate a pregnancy, but to others who sympathize and empathize with the women who aren't screwing around with their bodies to make a statement like she is.

Okay, so the project didn't involve actual impregnations and abortions, but how could she possibly believe that this project means anything positive for women? I hope she feels satisfied that the entire nation is ridiculing both her and the Ivy-league university that thought it was even necessary to protect her.

I think i'm in love!

So let me get this straight…A girl pretending to have miscarriages faked a public spectacle to generate a topical discussion on the "form and function" of a woman's body…?

Twit. This moron got into Yale?
I think I am more mad at myself for reading and responding.

So in other words she was lying-either when she courageously presented her "artwork" to the world or when she defended herself before a bunch of scary old Faculty Members.
Is this what "empowerment" is all about? She needs to contact the Hillary Clinton campaign team-they could use her.

This is so rich with possibility - Foucault vs. Strauss, The Cage Match!

Why do we hate women so much.

A truly disgusting display, she ought to be ashamed of herself.

UPDATE: Yale issued this statement. It looks like the bitch didn't impregnate herself and didn't induce miscarriages.

Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She 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. 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.

She is an artist and has the right to express herself through performance art.

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

update's a little late aj; shvarts has gone on record with the yale daily news saying that the yale statement was inaccurate. she MIGHT not have been pregnant. but she probably was at least once. who knows? ugh.

oh really? i must have a really short attention span cause now i just don't care. ;)

couldn't possibly have said it any better myself: http://jezebel.com/381279/one-.....0-annoying

yeah…. i'm a bit fixated on it, being as i'm in the middle of this sh**storm. And the Women's Center gives their full backing to no one's surprise. why am i here?