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whay are people here so flipped out about that girl at yale's art project? it is pretty gross, but it's her body. is the reaction here due to the fact that many here have struggled with infertility and they pereceive this girl to be cavalier?
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04.17.08, 02:28 PM [ Flag ]
- You don't understand why people might have a problem with someone getting pregnant for the express purpose of aborting the fetus for an art project?
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  04.17.08, 02:29 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - op: i think it's gross. but, i am very prochoice and i ultimately think it's her body to do what she wants with
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    04.17.08, 02:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - So you're saying you think she has the right to do this? Assuming that is true, you don't see any problem with it other than it's "gross"? Really?
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      04.17.08, 02:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - I am prochoice too, but I don't believe that it's ethical to create life for the purpose of destroying it.
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      04.17.08, 02:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - i'm prochoice, too... and i don't even think it would be ethical to do with a bug. this girl threatens women retaining choice.
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        04.17.08, 02:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Can you really not perceive anything wrong with it other than it being "pretty gross"?
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  04.17.08, 02:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - if you are pro-choice, how can you think that you have any right to tell her what to do with her own body
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    04.17.08, 02:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - Who said I am trying to tell her what to do? I am not trying to stop her, but I still think it's very wrong. You don't see the difference, and you don't understand what the moral problem with it is?
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      04.17.08, 02:32 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      - i guess i don't. i personally wouldn't do that, but ultimately i don't care what this person does with her own body. not my business
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        04.17.08, 02:33 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - It is not right to get yourself pregnant knowing that you are going to end the pregnancy intentionally...it is WRONG to disrespect the embryo and your own body.
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      04.17.08, 02:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I couldn't care less how many abortions anyone else has. I just find the whole thing tastless. I don't want to see someone take a huge poop as art either
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  04.17.08, 02:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - op: ita. but people here were wishing infertility and sorts of awful stuff on this girl
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    04.17.08, 02:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - I am not one of the people who wished harm on her, and I don't think anyone should, but I certainly think it's wrong. (Or would be, if she had really done what she claimed, which I doubt.)
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      04.17.08, 02:33 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- it trivializes an important ethical issue. i am pro-choice, but think what she did, if true, is horrible.
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  04.17.08, 02:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- Obviously other people see a fetus as different than just blood.
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  04.17.08, 02:32 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - but i thought this board was full of a bunch of pro-choice liberals
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    04.17.08, 02:33 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - i am a pro-choice liberal. that doesn't mean i like abortions, just that i recognize the need for them sometimes.
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      04.17.08, 02:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - I'm a liberal, and I am pro-choice ONLY because I think the alternative is worse and more dangerous to women. I do think abortion after 12 weeks should be illegal unless the fetus has a medical issue.
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      04.17.08, 02:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- What I don't get is why everyone believes she was able to induce abortions (repeatedly) using herbs without any doctor or prescription involved. If it were really that easy, wouldn't other people beside this Yale girl, have known about this method?
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  04.17.08, 02:34 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - other people have done this before. i have heard of herbal abortions before. they are not always safe. that's the rub
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    04.17.08, 02:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - I have heard of it too, but if it were really so easy (she claims she did this repeatedly), and so foolproof, they would of course be in wide use -- which they're not. So I think she's making it up.
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      04.17.08, 02:36 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- damn- some people will do anything to be perceived as an art star-
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  04.17.08, 02:34 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- It's the knd of thing that spoiled. entitled pseudo-artistes need to do in order to "incite thought" and get attention.
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Posted October 3, 2007(37 replies)

whay are people here so flipped out about that girl at yale's art project? it is pretty gross, but it's her body. is the reaction here due to the fact that many here have struggled with infertility and they pereceive this girl to be cavalier?

You don't understand why people might have a problem with someone getting pregnant for the express purpose of aborting the fetus for an art project?

op: i think it's gross. but, i am very prochoice and i ultimately think it's her body to do what she wants with

So you're saying you think she has the right to do this? Assuming that is true, you don't see any problem with it other than it's "gross"? Really?

I am prochoice too, but I don't believe that it's ethical to create life for the purpose of destroying it.

i'm prochoice, too... and i don't even think it would be ethical to do with a bug. this girl threatens women retaining choice.

Can you really not perceive anything wrong with it other than it being "pretty gross"?

if you are pro-choice, how can you think that you have any right to tell her what to do with her own body

Who said I am trying to tell her what to do? I am not trying to stop her, but I still think it's very wrong. You don't see the difference, and you don't understand what the moral problem with it is?

i guess i don't. i personally wouldn't do that, but ultimately i don't care what this person does with her own body. not my business

It is not right to get yourself pregnant knowing that you are going to end the pregnancy intentionally...it is WRONG to disrespect the embryo and your own body.

I couldn't care less how many abortions anyone else has. I just find the whole thing tastless. I don't want to see someone take a huge poop as art either

op: ita. but people here were wishing infertility and sorts of awful stuff on this girl

I am not one of the people who wished harm on her, and I don't think anyone should, but I certainly think it's wrong. (Or would be, if she had really done what she claimed, which I doubt.)

it trivializes an important ethical issue. i am pro-choice, but think what she did, if true, is horrible.

Obviously other people see a fetus as different than just blood.

but i thought this board was full of a bunch of pro-choice liberals

i am a pro-choice liberal. that doesn't mean i like abortions, just that i recognize the need for them sometimes.

I'm a liberal, and I am pro-choice ONLY because I think the alternative is worse and more dangerous to women. I do think abortion after 12 weeks should be illegal unless the fetus has a medical issue.

What I don't get is why everyone believes she was able to induce abortions (repeatedly) using herbs without any doctor or prescription involved. If it were really that easy, wouldn't other people beside this Yale girl, have known about this method?

other people have done this before. i have heard of herbal abortions before. they are not always safe. that's the rub

I have heard of it too, but if it were really so easy (she claims she did this repeatedly), and so foolproof, they would of course be in wide use -- which they're not. So I think she's making it up.

damn- some people will do anything to be perceived as an art star-

It's the knd of thing that spoiled. entitled pseudo-artistes need to do in order to "incite thought" and get attention.

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