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LifeNews now reports that the student who created the art in question claims her original story is not a hoax. LifeNews indicates:

In the latest development in the Yale University abortion art saga, senior art major Aliza Shvarts insists an admission to Yale officials yesterday that the art project is a hoax is inaccurate. Shvarts now insists she tried to get herself pregnant and repeatedly took herbs to try to induce abortions.However, she admitted she’s not sure if she ever became pregnant during the nine month “performance art” process.

James Taranto also discuses the situation on the Wall Street Journal website.  He writes:

What we find most fascinating about all this is the Yale administration’s claim that if the project was on the level, it “would have violated basic ethical standards.” Roger Kimball asks the obvious question:

What, by the way, was the standard being violated? I wonder, for example, whether the Yale spokesman would say that abortion itself violated a basic ethical standard? Or maybe the violation requires first deliberately impregnating oneself? (But why would that affect the “basic ethical standard” involved?) Or maybe it was videotaping the performance that was the problem?

It seems to us that Yale is hiding behind the ambiguity of the word ethical.