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Originally Posted by gutu28  |
I don't know if the update was there when this was posted but it has been confirmed to be a hoax.
**UPDATE-- HOAX CONFIRMED**
Well, all my suspicions were justified, it seems. The New York Sun is reporting that Yale announced that this was all the work of a "creative fiction" by the "art" student in question. The Yale Daily News was suckered, big time.
A Yale student’s bizarre art project in which she claimed to have repeatedly impregnated and induced abortions in herself is a work of "creative fiction," the university said in a statement this afternoon.
"Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art," a Yale spokeswoman, Helaine Klasky, said. "She stated to three senior Yale University officials today, including two deans, that she did not impregnate herself and that she did not induce any miscarriages. 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."
Ms. Klasky went on to suggest that Yale would not have permitted a project of the sort described in the student newspaper. "Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns."
Yes, it's all a scam. Just as I thought. The sad thing is that, without so much as giving this story some thought, so many news outlets reported this as fact earlier this morning.