Unbelievable Cruelty as Art

A Yale art student used bloody vaginal discharge for her senior project, claiming that it was tissue from self-induced “miscarriages.” (see stories here, here and here) At least some of the Religious Left are claiming that it is her body and what she does with it is nobody’s business.

LifeSiteNews.com has this follow-up today:

Yale Student Insists Abortion "Art Project" NOT a Hoax
By Hilary White

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - News outlets exploded yesterday with the story that a graduate art student at Yale University had deliberately impregnated herself multiple times and then used chemical abortifacients as an art project. Shvarts had said that the blood from the 'project' would be displayed along with video recordings of the "forced miscarriages". LifeSiteNews reported the development.
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'For the past year, I performed repeated self-induced miscarriages,' Shvarts wrote in the column. 'Using a needleless syringe, I would inject the sperm near my cervix within 30 minutes of its collection, so as to insure the possibility of fertilization.'
'On the 28th day of my cycle, I would ingest an abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding....Because the miscarriages coincide with the expected date of menstruation (the 28th day of my cycle), it remains ambiguous whether the there (sic) was ever a fertilized ovum or not.

I don’t think there is much I can say about this grotesque display of ignorance and cruelty. Ms. Shvarts is getting the attention she craves, and society has descended a little further into the abyss. God help us.