Article: Yale student drops 'abortion' art project?

By Mary E. O'Leary Register Topics Editor

NEW HAVEN -- The standoff between Yale University and a senior art student appears to have ended in a draw.

Senior Aliza Shvarts substituted a different work of art to fulfill her senior project requirement, but she avoided the issue of having to sign a statement that her original piece was a work of fiction, Yale officials said.

Shvarts set off a firestorm of criticism when she announced two weeks ago that she had inseminated herself numerous times in the last year, then induced multiple miscarriages and planned to show videos of it as part of a performance piece.

She further said she had incorporated her blood from the alleged abortions into a ...

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