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Sticking to the Bit? Yale’s Abortion Artist

April 18, 2008
Mike Nizza, New York Times

A few weeks after an April Fool’s Day onslaught of disinformation masquerading as fun, Yale University is claiming that one of its students is parading a hoax masquerading as art.

Aliza Shvarts’s abortion art project sparked waves of outrage on Thursday before the university announced that “the entire project is an art piece, a creative fiction designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body.”

But Ms. Shvarts is not playing along. She told The Yale Daily News that her project “did not consist of certainties” like medical tests to prove whether she was pregnant before she took “abortifacient herbs.”

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