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Yale Student Who Made "Abortion Art" to Debut New Work at London Museum
Life News ^ | 6/26/08 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 06/26/2008 4:38:30 PM PDT by wagglebee

New Haven, CT (LifeNews.com) -- The Yale University art student who caused a national uproar by supposedly making a senior art project showing her having repeated abortions is slated to unveil a new work in England. London's Tate Modern museum invited Aliza Shvarts to debut a new art project concerning culture and technology.

The student, who graduated in May, supposedly repeatedly artificially inseminated herself multiple times over a nine month period and used medicinal herbs to cause early abortions.

Shvarts supposedly created an art project consisting of the videos of the abortions and plastic sheets covered in her blood.

Yale officials said Shvarts admitted the project was a ruse, but she later denied the claim.

Yale authorities refused to display Shvarts' first art project until she signed a statement saying the installation was a ruse and that she had never been pregnant or had the abortions.

Shvarts refused and quit talking with the student newspaper about the project.

Now, Shvarts is one of 10 artists invited to present works on the relationship between culture and technology. The Tate Modern museum says the exhibit involves "a range of leading thinkers and practitioners" but says nothing about what justifies Shvarts for that status.

Instead, Shvarts may be benefiting from a Yale University connection.

The Yale Daily News includes a new report on the exhibit and Yale art-history lecturer Seth Kim-Cohen says he is curator for the event and invited Shvarts to participate.

"She seemed to be more affected by the media than most of us are in our whole lifetimes," Kim-Cohen told the newspaper. "I thought she would have some reaction to how the media manipulates stories and truths."

Tate Modern representative Bomi Odufunade confirmed to the newspaper the piece is not the controversial project Shvarts made earlier.

Shvarts did not respond to requests from the newspaper to discuss the new exhibit.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; art; moralabsolutes; prolife; shvarts; yale
Proof that being a self-centered media whore will work if you are a leftist.
1 posted on 06/26/2008 4:38:30 PM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 06/26/2008 4:39:25 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 06/26/2008 4:40:11 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
DO NOT WANT

4 posted on 06/26/2008 4:46:09 PM PDT by xDGx
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To: wagglebee

This woman is to be pitied. Like many people caught up in horrifiying degredation, she has lost any sensibilities she may once have possessed. Crack whores plying their trade in shadowed alleys are of the same order. The greatest tragedy is that when she dies, this world will have been her happiest time. Pity her - she’s a puppet of hell.


5 posted on 06/26/2008 4:49:23 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Don't cheer for Obama too hard - the krinton syndicate is moving back into the WH.)
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To: xDGx

oic


6 posted on 06/26/2008 4:49:33 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace; xDGx

And that’s one of her better looking pictures!


7 posted on 06/26/2008 4:56:53 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

There is a God, there is a hell, and there will be people in it. I get tired of arguing that their is “good” in everyone.


8 posted on 06/26/2008 4:57:19 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: wagglebee

Immoral, leftist c**t!

These people have no shame. The only people on the planet that have to be obnoxious and in-your-face offensive to get their evil, warped view across.


9 posted on 06/26/2008 5:01:43 PM PDT by faithinchaos (eternal pessimist, recovering optimist)
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To: chuckles

That means nothing to them. Most leftists are either atheists or follow some phony, new-age religion that doesn’t believe in a hell.


10 posted on 06/26/2008 5:04:39 PM PDT by faithinchaos (eternal pessimist, recovering optimist)
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To: wagglebee

Wouldn’t any sane person say that this individual is insane?


11 posted on 06/26/2008 5:08:54 PM PDT by mohresearcher
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To: wagglebee

In another day and age, this girl would’ve been incarcerated in an asylum as mentally ill...


12 posted on 06/26/2008 5:09:10 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: wagglebee
with any luck she will become sterile... don't need her genes polluting the gene pool.
13 posted on 06/26/2008 5:28:32 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©® - CTHULHU/SHOGGOTH '08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: wagglebee; All

I wish you all would just chill. This chick is what? 19 or 20 years old? Let me translate that....young and stupid. She goes to a liberal university. When she is 30 years old she will look back on this in horror. How many of you all did stuff when you were 19 or 20 that you wish you had not done? Trust me, this will come back to haunt her, only she does not know it now.


14 posted on 06/26/2008 5:55:21 PM PDT by Morgana (Muslims...............I can't believe these people are that crazy without alcohol!)
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To: Morgana

Good point


15 posted on 06/26/2008 5:58:27 PM PDT by Misschuck
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To: xDGx

The face of a serial murderer.


16 posted on 06/26/2008 5:59:30 PM PDT by vets son
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To: Morgana
She goes to a liberal university. When she is 30 years old she will look back on this in horror.

Except for the inconvenient fact that liberal universities are comprised of a whole lot of others who have NOT "looked back in horror." She's got a huge support group waiting for her.
17 posted on 06/26/2008 6:15:36 PM PDT by macamadamia (The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Yeats)
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To: Morgana
How many of you all did stuff when you were 19 or 20 that you wish you had not done?

Purposely impregnating yourself for the purpose of aborting over & over & then making an art project out of the blood? I think not that many normal people have something comparable to that. That is something much worse than some regrettable youthful stupidity.

18 posted on 06/26/2008 6:24:57 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: Morgana
Chill, my A$$! She is a freakin misfit and will get her just due both in this life and the next. Her haunts should be multiplied ten fold. Her age has nothing to do with what she has chosen to do. A POX on her!!!
19 posted on 06/26/2008 6:31:43 PM PDT by BatGuano
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To: faithinchaos
Most leftists are either atheists or follow some phony, new-age religion that doesn’t believe in a hell.

Their belief or disbelief won't matter.

20 posted on 06/26/2008 6:37:48 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (OVERPRODUCTION......... one of the top five worries for American farmers.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
Crack whores plying their trade in shadowed alleys are of the same order.

The difference there being that she is doing this of her own volition, but crack and other addicts are ruled, controlled by their addictions.

The greatest tragedy is that when she dies, this world will have been her happiest time.

And her happiest, 'greatest' time on earth will have been spent saturating herself in this filth and enjoying celebrity because of it. Seems her hell has already begun, she just doesn't know it yet...

21 posted on 06/26/2008 6:50:29 PM PDT by fortunecookie (Communism/socialism has failed millions, a lesson lost on too many.)
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To: wagglebee
The student, who graduated in May, supposedly repeatedly artificially inseminated herself multiple times over a nine month period and used medicinal herbs to cause early abortions. Shvarts supposedly created an art project consisting of the videos of the abortions and plastic sheets covered in her blood.

Ugh. If it's true, and Yale isn't so sure. Even so, cover story or actual events, she doesn't need a debut. She needs a therapist.

22 posted on 06/26/2008 6:58:33 PM PDT by fortunecookie (Communism/socialism has failed millions, a lesson lost on too many.)
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To: Morgana

Big difference between “young and stupid” and what this one does - a BIG difference.


23 posted on 06/26/2008 7:18:07 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Don't cheer for Obama too hard - the krinton syndicate is moving back into the WH.)
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To: wagglebee

Want to be a successful artist? Just be a Moloch-hugging, hideous, ghoul-skank and you’re all set.


24 posted on 06/26/2008 8:16:00 PM PDT by Antoninus (Every second spent bashing McCain is time that could be spent helping Conservatives downticket.)
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To: Morgana
When she is 30 years old she will look back on this in horror.

Based on people like her that I know, she won't do that at all. She'll find a "therapist" who will affirm and enable her sickness and carry on just as she always had.

God help any man stupid enough to get involved with her.
25 posted on 06/26/2008 8:20:03 PM PDT by Antoninus (Every second spent bashing McCain is time that could be spent helping Conservatives downticket.)
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To: mohresearcher

It’s not insanity,it’s evil! We only think their insane because it’s hard to understand the evil people do.


26 posted on 06/26/2008 8:31:56 PM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: coconutt2000

“In another day and age, this girl would’ve been incarcerated in an asylum as mentally ill...”

That day and age wasn’t even that long again. We’ve fallen off a moral cliff in a hurry.


27 posted on 06/26/2008 8:45:21 PM PDT by DemonDeac
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To: wagglebee

We need a new word...How about Nihilism..


28 posted on 06/26/2008 10:11:51 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: wagglebee
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29 posted on 06/27/2008 3:20:33 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: Morgana
I wish you all would just chill. This chick is what? 19 or 20 years old? Let me translate that....young and stupid.

Regardless of whether she succeeded or not, she attempted and desired to impregnate herself repetitively for the SOLE PURPOSE OF KILLING THE BABY. I refuse to write this off as normal "young and stupid" behavior.

She goes to a liberal university. When she is 30 years old she will look back on this in horror.

It's just as likely that she will stay in leftist academia and get even worse.

How many of you all did stuff when you were 19 or 20 that you wish you had not done?

I think all of us did things in our youth that we would have done differently if we had the chance to do it over. However, DELIBERATLY PLANNING TO KILL BABIES goes far beyond the pale.

30 posted on 06/27/2008 4:59:36 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: forkinsocket; Morgana
Purposely impregnating yourself for the purpose of aborting over & over & then making an art project out of the blood? I think not that many normal people have something comparable to that. That is something much worse than some regrettable youthful stupidity.

I have to agree here. Waking up naked in the middle of the Quad after a night of drinking, Streaking, getting a tattoo, that is regrettable youthful stupidity. Attempting multiple abortions goes way beyond that on the road to loonyville.

31 posted on 06/27/2008 5:05:11 AM PDT by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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To: macamadamia

Truly, a huge number of those propagandized at the university never look back and regain their common sense. Look around you.


32 posted on 06/27/2008 6:29:06 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: All
If it is indeed true she impregnated herself then terminated for art's sake, she is evil. Period, end of story. Youth does not excuse this sort of evil.
Secondly, most who identify themselves as artists typically aren't. I've been a "graphic jester" for most of my life (painting, drawing, sculpting, but alas no dipping of the crucifix in urine) and find that the truly great ones don't get caught up in "being an artist", rather they care about CREATING. I've had many a discussion with an elitist fool who will tell you that tampon smears on a canvas are true art, while Norman Rockwell's works whilst technically proficient, don't really rise to the level of "true art". Bullshyte. The reason I don't want to be called an artist is because of the snooty, untalented azz-wipes that spend their days submerged in that culture, a culture that lionizes someone based on their particular biography. An example: take a canvas, make some swirlies on it and present it to a critic. In the first instance tell them it was created by a homeless-lesbian- schizo, who was a former member of a 60's underground radical group associated with the Black Panthers. In the second instance, take the same canvas and tell a critic it was created by a housewife from Cleveland. The reactions will tell you everything you need to know about the "art scene".
33 posted on 06/27/2008 6:45:41 AM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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To: Morgana

I’m 21 and can guarantee that while I have done stupid things recently which I’m already looking back on and going “What the heck was I thinking,” I have never in my life thought it was a good idea to force a life into being, ingest dangerous substances to end that life, keep the remains of my child, and then repeat the next month in order to display it all (”it all” being human blood, though I doubt she successfully got pregnant) in seran wrap at an art exhibit. Or anything remotely close to that. And I really don’t know anyone who would do anything close to that. I’ve had people think somewhere going towards that level of insanity while drunk but upon sobering up they realize it wasn’t such a good idea.

The idea that she would purposely bring life into being only to kill it is evil. Taking dangerous substances is stupid. An art display involving human blood is unsanitary. If she had an ounce of sense, she wouldn’t have done this and really, it worked out for her didn’t it? Displaying her work in London is probably exciting and a big deal for her. She’s probably not going to regret this, and she certainly won’t regret it if everyone says, “All kids do stupid things, give her a pass.”


34 posted on 07/01/2008 8:59:14 AM PDT by lymelady
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