Troubles Brew in the Ivy League

I almost don't want to address this because it makes me so angry and frustrated but since it's pretty much already saturated the internets and it is a news story straight from my great home I suppose it merits some conversation. So this Yale student allegedly artificially inseminated herself over and over again for 9 months while repeatedly taking herbal abortifacients to induce "miscarriages," which she videotaped and the blood from which she preserved and surprise! She's turning the whole thing into an art installment! In which she projects the footage of herself bleeding into her bathtub onto a suspended cube she's lined with her blood.
At first when I read this I got so angry, because it seemed like this was going to become another freak incident that totally plays into ugly stereotypes about pro-choice women/women who have abortions AND trivializes the issue and reduces the whole topic of abortion to, basically, something completely absurd AND plays into anti-choice talking points.
And then I thought, wait a second, there is no way this could actually have happened. You can't artificially inseminate yourself (she was doing it at home with, I presume, some kind of turkey baster?) and get pregnant that many times in 9 months. Maybe she was never really pregnant and just took the abortifacients and cramped and bled into her bathtub for 3/4 of a year and called it art.
Not that that really matters, in the scheme of things, because either way she chose to present it the way she did.
But then this showed up, and now I don't even know what to think because we have the student standing behind her claim that she artificially inseminated/"aborted" for nine months but saying she doesn't know if she was ever pregnant and the whole point was to call attention to the ambiguity surrounding women's bodies etc etc. But Yale says the whole thing is "creative fiction," and claims that she admitted to them that she staged the whole thing but would deny that admission if they publicized it.

So we have so many issues here. If she did do what she claims, it's within her legal right to do so, but as strongly as I will stand behind the mantra of our bodies our choice, this still makes me furious. Because regardless of what she did, regardless of whether she was ever really pregnant or if the whole thing was phony, she presented it in a way that can and will be manipulated by anti-choicers. In the abortion debate, time and time again incidents of "extremes" have dominated conversation-- partial birth abortion, for example. This might be a really naive stupid undergrad art student, but it's an ugly message. I believe in free speech but I believe in self-censorship.
And on top of all the reproductive rights issues, there's also this problem of the university's claims contradicting her own. And personally, I don't know what to think, because I find it very believable that she faked the whole thing, but at the same time I know that university's are so much about PR and branding and image.

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