Bringing New Meaning to Creativity?

At least two great minds suggest that the news of a Yale University student, whose art exhibit will feature her self-induced abortions after artificial inseminations, is questionable. “Please let this be a hoax,” begins bioethics expert Wesley Smith’s post, “Abortion as ‘Art,’” today on Secondhand Smoke. On Best of the Web Today, The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto wrote, “The Yale Daily News reports today on what can only be described as a sick joke.” under a heading “Blood and Ivy.” Here’s a bit of the Yale Daily News’ story, “For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse,” about art major Aliza Shvarts’ self-expression: The display of Schvarts’ project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood