A student at Yale University that had told the university´s newspaper that she had inseminated herself several times and took drugs to get an abortion for an art project told school officials that the project was faked. According to the Washington Post, the initial information created an “outcry” on the Internet and protests and debates on the Yale campus.

The student, Aliza Shvarts,had said that she had inseminated herself “as often as possible” and then took herbal substances to induce an abortion. She had said that she would videotape her miscarriages and include a spoken section to explain what she had done.

Helaine Klasky, Yale´s spokeperson, stated that Shvarts admitted that she hadn´t impregnated herself and did not induce any miscarriages. Klasky added that the “entire project is an art piece, a creative ficion designed to draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman´s body”.

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