Yale student induces miscarriages for art

NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 17 (UPI) -- An art major at Connecticut's Yale University is set to show a project featuring video of her inseminating herself and having drug-induced miscarriages.

Aliza Shvarts said she impregnated herself "as often as possible" with donors' sperm during the same nine-month period she consumed drugs to cause miscarriages, Yale Daily News reported Tuesday.

Shvarts said the aim of her creation is to ignite conversation about links between the human body and art.

"Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone," she said.

Several students reportedly oppose the controversial abortion project.

"(Shvarts' exhibit) turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism," student Sara Rahman said.

Shvarts has defended her project, saying it was a "private and personal endeavor" that "lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."

The project, which begins showing Tuesday, features a hanging cube containing blood from Shvarts' miscarriages combined with videos of her going through them in her bathtub, the Daily News reported.