Life, Liberty and Property

Update: Well, I’ve learned my lesson about believing things I read on blogs. This story is a fake. Sorry.

I’ve heard a lot of stories of outrage over ‘offensive’ art. I certainly agree that much of what we call art these days is done in bad taste. Now I fully support the right of people to make whatever statement they want to make in whatever LEGAL way they choose to make it.

However, I feel pretty justified in questioning the moral compass of individuals who choose to get pregnant by artificial insemination for the express purpose of aborting the baby as a form of performance art (via The Agitator). There are lots of ways to create art that makes a point, offends or shocks the viewer, this girl chose a way that trivializes a matter as serious as abortion.

Even abortion proponents would usually stop short of suggesting that the procedure be used so casually. I don’t even need to remind you what the pro-life movement would think of this girl. It is one thing to get an abortion out of desperation, and entirely another thing to seek out a pregnancy with abortion as the goal. 

For someone accepted to an institution with Yale’s highly-selective standards, she sure doesn’t seem to have much common sense, either:

She said she was not concerned about any medical effects the forced miscarriages may have had on her body. The abortifacient drugs she took were legal and herbal, she said, and she did not feel the need to consult a doctor about her repeated miscarriages.

I guess there is no place for Doctors in “Art.” I mean, any sane medical professional would (hopefully) have tried to talk her out of this.