This girl put her body through the repeated physical abuse of impregnation and miscarriage for her "art." If this were true, it would have been quite a physical ordeal. In fact, if it had really happened, I'd imagine that she might possibly have put her health, or at least her future ability to become pregnant, at risk. But, in truth she was likely never pregnant, she never had any "miscarriages" and there was nothing but common menstrual fluids resulting.
What was her "process"? How did she create these so-called miscarriages? She asked boys she knew to donate sperm (she claims she also asked them to have tests for sexually transmitted diseases), she supposedly implanted that sperm into herself, and then she took these claimed herbal concoctions misleadingly called "abortifacient drugs" to end the pregnancy with forced miscarriage.
The main question is, was she ever pregnant? I have to say most likely no. The "turkey baster" method of implanting semen for impregnation is very ineffective, though known to be successful. Sperm does not live for too long once it hits the open air, so implantation would had to have occurred quickly after the issuing of the fluids. So, to assume that this girl had actually impregnated herself is not a good bet. There is no indication that there was any sort of "controls" placed on her efforts at implantation and, since there was never once any medical care, there is no proof that she ever was pregnant at all.
Secondly, the so-called "drugs" she used to induce the "miscarriages" are not real drugs. To even call them drugs is misleading. The so-called drugs, the abortifacient drugs, are herbal concoctions that have no medicinal value.
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So, what do we really have here? No proof of any real impregnation, no proof that the "drugs" taken could really induce miscarriage, and no medical tests to buttress any claims. In other words, we have a hoax. If not a hoax, we have a girl who has no idea what she is talking about and too many willing accomplices in the school and the media to just accept her claims as truth without any logic or science to put such claims to the test.
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And then we get to how this "art" project makes light of the real psychological pain that miscarriages cause women. My wife, for instance, went through a miscarriage early in our marriage and to this day she hurts over the event. There is real pain involved for women who have miscarriages, pain that should not be so casually mistreated by this so-called “artist.” They have often invested much emotional attachment to their impending baby's birth, they have settled into becoming a mother, and then, when that life is extinguished for whatever reason, an emotional pain often devastates the woman. She has lost her baby. Who gets over that with the snap of the fingers? Worse, what sort of hateful person would induce the pain of such a loss over and over again on purpose?
I will guarantee that there will be thousands of women who will read this story and will have that pain revisited to their minds immediately, that this Yale "art" student is causing pain to hundreds of thousands of women as we speak. There will be thousands of others incensed that this woman so blithely discarded the life inside her that many who are desperate to become pregnant are trying so hard to foster inside themselves.
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