Posted on 04/17/2008 6:31:45 AM PDT by nancyvideo
Beginning next Tuesday, Yale senior Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself ?as often as possible? while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages
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This is the spiritual battle for the soul of America. Are we losing this battle?
Sometimes words just aren’t adequate. This would be one one of those times.
You can bet on it.
Yes, but only after taking the New York, London and Paris art worlds by storm.
The only thing worse than an artist who "creates" crap like hers is the person who buys it.
At bottom, she's still a 14 month old learning to use the potty, who proudly comes to show his parent what he's made in the toilet.
Words fail.
Voluntary, repeated, filmed, preserved, exhibited internal body fluids containing intentionally created and destroyed human life. Wow.
Initially I thought this was an age inappropriate equivalent of the child spreading feces on the wall.
But the Spectacle aspect of it, the obsessively deluded narcissism that treats even excreta as art, and the casual manipulation of life and death remind me of somebody else:
NERO
That is what Western secularism has wrought, everyman as Nero
I hope not. I've just read The Reason For God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller. He makes a good point right at the beginning (in the introduction, in fact) which I tend to agree with:
Is skepticism or faith on the ascendancy in the world? The answer is Yes. The enemies are both right. Skepticism, fear, and anger toward traditional religion are growing in power and influence. But at the same time, robust, orthodox belief in the traditional faiths is growing as well.
He basically says that society is simultaneously becoming both more and less religious. I agree. We're polarizing. It's evident in politics as well. People seem to be becoming more conservative or more liberal. And when it comes to the question of faith in Christ, I've personally encountered many more people recently than in the past who either take a strong stance against Him or who worship Him as Lord and Savior.
As for the end -I've read the Book and know Who wins!
Wonder if this satanist has read any of the literature about the direct link between abortions and breast cancer.
Amen!
At times I wonder how long we as a nation have.
When I see things like this, I just hope that it isn’t long. I don’t want to even guess what the next step will be to top this murderous stunt.
From wikipedia- Self induced abortion.
A self-induced abortion is an abortion performed outside the recognized medical system. Although the term can include abortions induced through legal, over-the-counter medication, it also refers to efforts to terminate a pregnancy through alternative, often more dangerous means. Such practices are illegal in most jurisdictions - even where abortion itself is legal - and may present a grave threat to the life of a woman. An unsuccessful attempt to induce such an abortion can also cause lasting damage to the unborn child....
Although Roe v. Wade[4] made abortion more readily available throughout the U.S., it remains a crime in most jurisdictions for a woman to attempt to perform an abortion on herself. In May of 2005, Gabriela Flores - a Mexican immigrant living in South Carolina - was charged under such a statute, which carried a maximum penalty of two years in prison. She had induced abortion by ingesting misoprostol, an ulcer medication with abortifacient potential.[5] Mississippi classifies self-induced abortions as deaths which affect the public interest, requiring that physicians report them to the local medical examiner. [9] By contrast, New Mexico's "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" exempts self-induced abortion from the criminal liability the act creates.[10]
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See below. It is against the law for her to self induce abortion. She can probably be chraged for practicing medicine without a license or something or other.
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From google Search "connecticut self induced abortion law"
annualreview.law.harvard.edu/population/abortion/US.abortionlaws/CONNECTICU1.htm -
CHAPTER 368a DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH * * * Sec. 19a-116. (Formerly Sec. 19-66g). Regulation of facilities which offer abortion services.
The Commissioner of Public Health shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, establishing standards to control and ensure the quality of medical care provided to any pregnant woman undergoing an induced abortion at any outpatient clinic regulated under the Public Health Code. Such standards shall include, but are not limited to, provisions concerning: (1) The verification of pregnancy and a determination of the duration of such pregnancy; (2) preoperative instruction and counseling; (3) operative permission and informed consent; (4) postoperative counseling including family planning; and (5) minimum qualifications for counselors.
Public Health Code. * * 19-13-D54. Abortions (a) No abortion shall be performed at any stage of pregnancy except by a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State of Connecticut.
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Human subject research is also regulated under various federal and State laws. Universities have Institutional Review Boards that have to pre-approve Human Subject Researach (not just Medical but Pscyhological as well)
While "art" may seem to be exempted from research. I bet some decent pro-life lawyers can make the case that the student is in violation of the Universities own policies and codes on the matter. The fact that the professors approved that she violate the Public Health Law of Conneticut can be used against the University as well.
I'm no lawyer but I sure hope some Pro-life groups and real lawyers in Conneticut follow up on this. Plus some public pressure on the necessary public officals to actually do something about it.
I may have mopped up a masterpiece when I cleaned up after stepping on a shard of glass from a broken dish then.
Another FReeper put it very well. I wish I still had the post, but the gist of it was the observation that the spiritual decks seem to be being cleared of those who are lukewarm leaving the very righteous and the very evil.
And the next time any of you Freepers changes a diaper, first see if any of your local galleries is interested in putting it up for sale before throwing it out.
I wonder why?
Dear God. I can’t even deal with the substance of what this girl did, so I’ll comment on it being an acceptable art display at one of our most prestigious universities, which accepts public money. In no decent society should this kind of behavior be acceptable. It should offend everyone, regardless of politics or religion. There needs to be a serious public outcry, demonstrations, and pressure from alumni. Not that I know any Yale alumni. Didn’t Michelle Obama go to Yale?
Yale has now said she didn’t do this—its a FICTIONAL work of “art”. What she put together is a demonstration.
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, along comes this. Words escape me.
See This? Still sick.
Yale: Student artwork purporting to show abortion a hoax
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Apr 17, 9:54 PM (ET)
By PAT EATON-ROBB
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A Yale University art student duped the student newspaper with a story about inducing repeated abortions on herself and using the blood for her senior art project, the school said Thursday.
The story about Aliza Shvarts’ project, published Thursday in the Yale Daily News, swept across blogs and media outlets - including the Drudge Report, Fox News and The Washington Post - before Yale issued a statement saying it investigated and found it all to be a hoax that was Shvarts’ idea of elaborate “performance art.”
“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,” said Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky.
Shvarts’”performance art” included visual representations, a news release and other narrative materials, Klasky said. When confronted by three senior Yale officials, including two deans, Shvarts acknowledged that she did not seek any abortions.
Shvarts told the student paper that she planned to display a work that consisted of a cube lined with plastic sheets with a blood-and-petroleum-jelly mixture in between, onto which she would project video footage of herself “experiencing miscarriages in her bathroom tub.”
The newspaper’s account detailed “a nine-month process during which (Shvarts) artificially inseminated herself ‘as often as possible’ while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages.”
Shvarts told the paper her goal was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body.
Cullen MacBeth, the student newspaper’s managing editor, declined to comment Thursday.
Shvarts could not be reached for comment. Her telephone number was disconnected and she did not respond to e-mails or a knock on the door at the address listed for her in the campus directory in New Haven.
Groups both for and against abortion rights expressed outrage over the affair.
Ted Miller, a spokesman for NARAL Pro-Choice America, called the concept offensive and “not a constructive addition to the debate over reproductive rights.”
Peter Wolfgang, executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, an anti-abortion group, said his anger was not mitigated by the fact that Shvarts was never pregnant.
“I’m astounded by this woman’s callousness,” he said. “There are thousands of women in this country who are dealing with the pain of having had an abortion, with the trauma of having suffered a miscarriage. For her to make light of that for her own purposes is just beyond words.”
Ditto
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