I've heard about some pretty horrible things in name of artistic expression.

There have been touring exhibits featuring crucifixes immersed in jars of urine. There have been works of art with the Virgin Mary created and covered in animal crap.

But this week, with the Pope in America, talking about issues of brotherhood and love for your fellow man, we have perhaps the worst "artistic" endeavor ever taking place on a college campus.

As a matter of fact, I was so horrified at this, I couldn't believe it was real.

These words from the Yale College senior Aliza Shvarts herself - explaining as a guest columnist in the Yale Daily News what she's doing as a senior "art" project -

"For the past year, I performed repeated self-induced miscarriages. I created a group of fabricators from volunteers who submitted to periodic STD screenings and agreed to their complete and permanent anonymity. From the 9th to the 15th day of my menstrual cycle, the fabricators would provide me with sperm samples, which I used to privately self-inseminate. Using a needle-less syringe, I would inject the sperm near my cervix within 30 minutes of its collection, so as to insure the possibility of fertilization. On the 28th day of my cycle, I would ingest an abortifacient, after which I would experience cramps and heavy bleeding."

To further support the validity of her "project," the art major appeared via video In her studio on Thursday, the art major Shvarts shared footage that she says shows her inducing miscarriages and bleeding into a cup.

As I read this my heart sank. To what levels will humanity not sink.

But then I thought, why should this surprise me? Is it any more horrific than partial birth abortion? Aside from the fact that nobody is calling it art - what is the real difference. It's deliberate. It's planned. It's horrific. It's selfish. It's inexcusable. It's murder.

Aside from the personal danger she's putting herself in, which quite frankly I could care less about, this "woman" and I use that term with the tongue in cheek, is without regret or remorse ensuring that a human life is terminated. And she's making a game out of it.

She's not like some poor confused teen who in a moment of weakness opts to terminate an unwanted pregnancy; an act of desperation that in coming years may haunt her nightmares.

No, she's deliberately attempting to create a life for the simple purpose of killing it…in the name of art.

I'm wondering if the same sickos who are encouraging her to continue this in the name of artistic expression and freedom would feel the same if she were breeding lab animals for the simple purpose of smashing them on the heads with hammers and dumping heir lifeless carcasses into a glass display case for the world to enjoy in a touring art show.

That's a rhetorical question by the way.

I suppose I shouldn't be all that surprised. Look at the value of innocent life in this society.

Abortion is readily accepted and violent criminals have more legal right protections that their victims.

People who stand outside abortion clinics and pray for the issue of life are considered freaks and doctors who murder the unborn are called medical professionals. Go figure.

I guess in a country and world with these kind of values, nothing should surprise me.

All it takes is enough good people to do nothing for evil to win. Right now folks, evil is winning. What are we going to do about it?