Aliza Shvarts Creates Abortion Art

From the time I was Twelve Years old I knew that I wanted to attend and graduate from college. This was encouraged by my Dad who as the result of his father's death dropped out of school at age ten and worked to provide for his mother and three sisters. Having no formal job training or skills my Dad worked as a Taxi driver putting in 16 hours a day.... My Dad knew the value of education and instilled it in my brothers and me at an early age.

As a result I took college very seriously. When I was not working weekends on my part time job I spent every free hour in the library or the Physics lab studying eventually graduating with a degree in Engineering.

I realize this story is not unique and that many families struggle and work very hard to provide an opportunity for their children to gain an education and prepare themselves for a better life. These families make great sacrifices for their children to gain an education and have opportunities in life they, the parents, never had.

With this background I was shocked to read the story of Aliza Shvarts, a Yale undergraduate student majoring in Art. According to news reports Ms. Shvarts in preparation for her senior 'Art Project' artificially inseminated herself and then took abortion inducing drugs to cause a miscarriage with the sole intent of filming the results and using the results of the miscarriage as part of her 'Art Project"

According to Ms. Shvarts she repeated the impregnation and induced miscarriages multiple times, hoping to get better results.

She admitted to filming herself having miscarriages in a bathtub and saving the blood that resulted.

For her "Art Project' Ms. Shvart saved her miscarriage blood and used it to coat a plastic cube suspended from the gallery ceiling. Once the cube was drenched in her (and her aborted fetus's) blood Ms. Shvart coated the cube with Vaseline to make it appear as constantly fresh blood.

The 'Art Project' was made complete by projecting on the side of the cube film of Ms. Shvart experiencing the miscarriage.

Chances are spokespersons for Yale and for Ms. Shvart would say art must have freedom of expression. Perhaps they are right and anything goes. However, when I recall the reverence my Dad and others had for the value of education and the work and toil and sacrifice they made to provide it for their loved ones I can't help but wonder if plastic cubes covered in the blood of a fetus created to be aborted, is what education is or should be about.

There is much that can be said about this report....I'll give one opinion:

I am neither 'Pro-Life" nor "Pro-Choice".....but to induce a pregnancy with the sole intent of aborting the fetus and using the results for a school project Sickens Me.

Surely the supporters of Rowe vs. Wade cannot support this insanity.

Both the Yale and Ms. Shvarts deserve the most severe condemnation