Aliza Shvarts Creates 'Abortion' Art and a Controversy

Yale Brass Says Project Didn't Include Miscarriages, Was a Hoax

Updated on April 18, 8:21 a.m.: The controversy surrounding a Yale University student's abortion themed art project took a strange turn when a university spokesperson pronounced the whole thing a hoax. Aliza Svartz, the student in question, denied that her project was a hoax.

Aliza Svartz sparked a controversy that spread through the blogosphere and the mainstream media when she told a student newspaper that her senior art project would consist of a documentary of her impregnating herself through artificial insemination and then taking an abortion drug. The video would be displayed with a sample of the student's own blood.

The Yale University spokesperson announced that Svartz had been confronted by three university officials, including two deans. Under questioning Svartz admitted that the whole art project was a hoax or, as she preferred to put it, "performance art."

Aliza Svartz disputes the characterization of her art project as a "hoax." Svartz claims now that she did try to artificially inseminate herself, but now admits that she is uncertain whether she became pregnant during any of these attempts. She used abortifacient herbs to induce bleeding, but now admits to uncertainty as to whether any miscarriages occurred.

Reaction across the blogosphere was swift and direct. Typical was that of Hotair.Com's Allahpundit, who sarcastically suggested, "I guess she showed the heteronormative patriarchy a thing or two about overreacting to, um, serial abortion as a form of highbrow entertainment."
No word yet as to whether the "art piece" will actually be put on display.

Original story, April 17, 11:49 a.m.:

The definition of what constitutes "art" keeps being pushed into regions of absurdity and grossness. No greater example of such exist than an art project by a Yale student named Aliza Shvarts who documented how she artificially inseminated herself and then used abortifacient drugs to end her pregnancy.