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<p>Is this what was meant by the right to choose?</p>
<p>What, exactly, is the artist’s “message?”</p>
<p>I think this student may need a bit of psychiatric help, but that’s just me.</p>
<p>I’m not being flip. It doesn’t seem like the artist understands the social and moral implications of her actions. She didn’t intend to shock people? What planet is she living on. Yale isn’t that isolated of an environment that she couldn’t know how repulsed many would be by her exhibit, her actions, and her lack of regard.</p>
<p>Wow…</p>
<p>May have to rethink the Yale decision. This should not be allowed!</p>
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<p>That’s just gross.</p>
<p>Some questions:</p>
<p>Who were the donors, and how stupid were they? What if the medicine didn’t work and she didn’t miscarry? </p>
<p>I wonder about any guy who would do this as well as the girl…too bizarre </p>
<p>And while I am prochoice, etc, I can’t imagine taking that strong a medication month after month would be good for your insides…</p>
<p>I can imagine the conversation</p>
<p>Dude, I am doing an art project and I need you to donate a wee something in this here cup, so I can have a miscarrage and video tape it…you up for that? Here’s a magazine…</p>
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<p>If this is real, it is an appalling project, no matter what side of the abortion debate you favor. Why anyone would want to go see/hear this project is beyond me. It makes my stomach turn and my heart ache.</p>
<p>I wonder if she is inviting her mom to the exhibition? </p>
<p>(Exhibition is the right word here, in more than one sense.)</p>
<p>If she thinks this “publicity stunt” will put her on the map in the art world, it will, but not in the way she probably expects. In the meantime she will lose all respect, (including her self respect).
Making a “statement”…my %&#. Pure shock value is worth nothing.
I’m pro choice too, but this beyond anything. It’s going to backfire big time.</p>
<p>Imagine the feelings of all the women undergoing fertility treatment in this country… or all of the women who have miscarried wanted babies…</p>
<p>Well . . . it looks like she’s sure sparking controversy and debate about the relationship between art and the human body!</p>
<p>By the way, I suspect this WILL put her on the map in the art world, to some extent. And regardless of what people think of her, 99% of the struggle in the art world is getting people to pay any attention at all. I have all kinds of objections to this, but it’s probably a good career move. She can always have a change of heart and apologize tearfully (and artistically) later.</p>
<p>not to mention that blood is a biohazard… hope it’s well contained.</p>
<p>It’s quite a stretch to think the controversy is over the “relationship between art and the human body.” What is the “message?”
Not everything is art just because a person thinks it is.
Also, why is the relationship between art and the human body even an original topic? Considering all of the art over the last several hundred years involving the human form, does she think that no one has ever discussed the relationship between art and the human body?</p>
<p>You have to wonder why a professor would agree to sponsor a project that involves the student putting herself in serious physical danger for a prolonged period. In my view, that’s irresponsible regardless of the political/ethical morass here.</p>
<p>I agree, Hanna, and I also wonder why any young woman would put herself in that position, which is why I think she needs psychiatric counselling.</p>
<p>Her message might be pro-life in a really sick twisted way. She could be doing this to spark discussion on what the value of a human life is. If you are pro-choice, aborting numerous times shouldn’t cause such a reaction.</p>
<p>I’m pro-choice and I think what she’s doing is immoral.</p>
<p>…wow. That’s pretty gross. I don’t think it’s morally wrong for her to abort like that - I do think it’s very distasteful - but I agree with whoever said that girl needs some serious psychiatric help. The part of it that’s most wrong is the way in which she basically trivializes miscarriage, something that is extremely traumatic for a number of women.</p>
<p>Let’s see…words that come to mind: bizzare, immature, stupid, repulsive, biohazardous, lucky she didn’t get an infection and die… I hoipe she does not find that she was rendered infertile by a subclinical infection, as the odds of this are high based on her “technique.” The ramifications are clearly something she did not reseach or did not care about. This form of self-mutilation as artistic expression leaves me absolutely speechless. I have seen alot practicing GYN for 24 years. This takes the prize. </p>
<p>Is she prolife or prochoice? </p>
<p>For those that wonder about where she got her sperm, there are sperm banks that sell directly to “patients” and provide instructions on how to deposit the specimen almost like one inserts a tampon. I certainly hope this is how she got her specimens. Otherwise, she had better hurry up and get testing for HIV, HPV, GC, Chamydia, Hepatitis, mycoplasma/ureaplasma… How she got the misoprostil or RU-486 or methotrexate is another question. I suspect one can find meds online if one tries hard enough. This was an expensive project–self-funded? Funded by Yale? On financial aid? (so that she could use her own funds for this?)</p>
<p>Wow, Yale. Just…Wow.</p>
<p>singermom has touched on an idea that occurred to me. This could just as easily be an antiabortion statement. Not all art is what it seems to be, or what the artist claims it is.</p>
<p>It’s just blood, not fetuses, correct? Not too hard for a young female to find blood. I haven’t seen the tapes (don’t want to) but unless there is actual evidence of aborted fetuses, I think this may be a ruse.</p>
<p>After all, its unveiling is not likely to gain a lot of abortion rights supporters.</p>