A art student at Yale  recently announced in her student paper that she had been inducing repeated abortions on herself and using the blood for her art:

The story about Aliza Shvarts’ project, published Thursday in the Yale Daily News, swept across blogs and media outlets ” including the Drudge Report, Fox News and The Washington Post ” before Yale issued a statement saying it investigated and found it all to be a hoax that was Shvarts’ idea of elaborate “performance art.”

“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,” said Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky.

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