Abortion as Art?

A Yale University art student, Aliza Shvarts, claimed that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project. She said she used artificial insemination on herself as much as possible, while taking herbal drugs to induce miscarriages. Apparently, this "project" is supposed to be an art piece. She planned on displaying the project by showing a cube lined with plastic sheets with a blood and petroleum jelly mixture in between, and showing a video of herself having her miscarriage in her bath tub.

Yale issued a statement saying that they investigated this so-called project and found that it was all a hoax. Shvarts however still insists that everything is real. At this time, whether she really did it or not, no one really knows. Shvarts said that the goal is to attract conversations about woman body's functions. What? Is she saying she can't think of a more tasteful way to achieve her goal? And this is a Yale student, she's supposed to be "smart."

The topic of abortion itself is another subject. And you can bet that anti-abortion organizations are already voicing their disgust at this "art project." Hoax or not, should this kind of abortion be treated as art? What this girl does with her own body is her business, but if what she's doing is real - that means she is purposely creating life, just so she can destroy it... again and again. There are a lot of extreme art out there, but art that involves playing "God" and destroying lives draws the line. And if this was a hoax, then she's nothing more than a liar.