My Brother and My Idea...Med/science person needed

Submitted by unamused on April 27, 2007, 9:54pm.

O.K.--so if this is totally sick--well, I just don't really give a shit...

My brother and I were discussing the whole stupidity of the abortion thing--why the hell are we still having this discussion and why are old white men so deeply involved? Shouldn't these guys be out earning money to support all these babies they want to bring into the world instead of harassing me when I go to get a pap at Planned Parenthood? I want to see some crying women who've done it and now want to slit their wrists...maybe that would convince me...but some old wanker with a confederate tee on is just not going to do anything more than piss me off. I don't care what kind of carnage is on his sign. I could do the same for animal rights--stand right next to him with an equally disturbing sign, but he probably eats meat and hopes to buy his wife a fur one day after they move out of the trailer park... (Wait that gives me an idea...)

Anyway, my brother (philosopher, very concerned with ethics) and I developed this idea for an art/philosophy project but we need a medical person also: to inform us how/ or if its possible to carry out and if so help us with the legislation. We want to make adoption boxes of aborted zygotes--that is the state of a fetus prior to the legal abortion in the U.S. (or if you are a real bible-thumper--the baby--and you should also stop reading now...).

So these adoption boxes (and just so you know my brother went through an abortion and is heartbroken over the whole thing--but knows he made the right choice)will consist of the preserved capsule of the zygote, the "possible" life story of the zygote had it been born --won't be pleasant--but all individual, messed-up cabbage patch kid-style, and a frame-able adoption certificate all enclosed in a very beautiful display box. Not sure yet what the total cost would be because we doubted that we could get actual zygotes...

However, we were hoping that the very people
we detested--The Christian Right--would have a few good years of swallowing this up like crazy, making our helper, my brother and I both independently wealthy until the craze got so prevalent that they learned from the art community that it was just an art project partially funding abortion/ women's rights...which is what we decided 60% if the project funds should go to.

Did I just ruin everything here? Well--Look for at least a mock of this in the future around town. There are probably so many legal hoops to go through a true exhibit is probably possible--unless its my own...and I am not quite sure I'm that committed to my art.