An Assault against Life

Posted by: Kaylan Christopher on April 24, 2008 Biblical Values •

I just recently read an article about a senior art major at Yale, Aliza Shvarts, who reportedly performed the horrific act of abortion on herself in the name of art. The “artist” documented herself on video, through a 9-month period, reportedly artificially inseminating herself and then periodically taking abortifacient drugs in order to induce miscarriages.

According to Shvarts, her goal was to “spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body.” And she believes “strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity. I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”

Authorities at Yale University are saying the incident is a hoax, but Shvarts has rebutted saying she will prove it isn’t by displaying her documentary in an art show soon.

Rightly so, her display has caused shock and outrage all across the country. National groups on both sides of the abortion debate have condemned the project. And many students on campus expressed their disgust at the “art” project saying “it trivialized abortion and transgressed any reasonable moral boundary.”

I think the first questions we must ask are: Since when did taking unborn lives become art? How could our country allow this to happen? And, how did people become so insensitive to the issue of abortion?

As Christians, we should also be outraged by this horrific act and take a stand against it! It is God who creates human life.

His Word says, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made… When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:13-16, NIV).

Since the legalization of abortion by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973’s Roe v. Wade, people all over our country have become desensitized to the value of life. Back then, the Court ruled that an unborn child is neither a human nor a person, and therefore is not protected under the Constitution.

Today, our nation is still divided on this issue and it continues to be a hot topic in the debate among this year’s presidential candidates. But, the Word of God stands firm—unchanging—and it specifically speaks out against the massacre of the unborn. Where do you stand? If you’re a believer in Christ, then your decision should be easy. Let your voice be heard.

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