I'm an designer, so I absolutely believe in the freedom of an artist to use their medium as a form of self-expression.  I'm also pro-choice, and I believe that individuals have a right to express that view as well.  Hell, I may have even combined the two in college when I made that corny ass poster of a woman's hands over her breasts and that overused caption 'Keep Your Laws Off My Body.'

But what Aliza Shvarts is doing? NOT art, and certainly not helping the cause of a woman's right to choose.  The Yale Daily News is reporting that art major Schvarts “artificially inseminated herself ‘as often as possible’ while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages" as part of her senior art project.

This took place over nine months and served as documentation for her exhibition, which projects videos of her miscarriages and life onto a hanging cube wrapped hundreds of times in plastic, with blood from the miscarriages spread between the layers. I won't go into any more detail, but if you can stomach it you can see what else she 'shares' in her exhibition here.

Oh, also? Schvarts claims she didn't do the piece merely for "shock value."

WTF?  I have news for you Aliza - wrapping your miscarriages up like a bunch of steaks and hanging them from a piece of string is certainly not art, and only serves to trivialize abortion and what is a very serious decision for women.

Also, it's whack jobs like you that give a bad name to people who are truly creative.  Exhibits like yours only damage real artists and their work in the court of public opinion.  What you're doing is not art, so don't even attempt to put yourself in the same category as the Jasper Johns or the David Hockneys or even the Damien Hirsts of the world.

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