On the Banality of Abortion as Art By Ian Marcus Corbin

Yale senior Aliza Shvarts has gone too far—or maybe she hasn’t. According to a press release that Shvarts sent to the Yale Daily News on Wednesday, April 16, over a recent nine-month period, the senior art major artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” and then induced miscarriages by means of herbal abortifacient pills. At first blush, her actions bespeak a morbidly unsound mind, but what makes Shvarts’ actions even more outrageous is that she is—by all appearances—a perfectly normal young woman. This was not, it seems, a cry for help. Rather, Shvarts says it was abortion for art’s sake—indeed, it was art. Shvarts claims to have filmed herself bleeding into a cup each month and to have saved the products of that bleeding to display as part of her upcoming senior thesis presentation.

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