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  • Abortion Art - Chinese 'Artist' Defends Grafting Fetus Head onto Bird's Body

    BEIJING, August 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Chinese artist who has attached the head of an aborted baby to the body of a bird in the name of art is defending his work after a Swiss gallery removed the piece from a collection of Chinese works on display in Bern.

    A visitor to the museum, Adrien de Riedmatten, filed a complaint Monday with Bern's District Attorney, after viewing the controversial piece at the Bern Fine Art Museum. "I want to know where this baby comes from and if it was killed for this work," de Riedmatten said. "We know about the problems of late-term abortions in China and we have the right to ask ourselves questions. We owe a minimum amount of respect to the dead," his complaint stated. "I think it is reasonable to question the ethics of this piece of art."

    For his part, 'artist' Xiao Yu claims, "It's precisely because I respect all life that I did this. The bird and the foetus both died because there was something wrong with them. I thought putting them together like this was a way for them to have another life."

    Jim Hughes, Vice President of the International Right to Life Federation commented on the display to LifeSiteNews.com saying, "The staggering Chinese abortion rate of over 6.3 million per year or more than 17,000 per day, along with the government sponsored dehumanization of unborn children leads to this kind of horrific display. When children are considered no better than animals then they can be made objects."

    Amnesty International and other human rights agencies have detailed shocking actions by Chinese family planning officials such as drowning newborn children when they are discovered born without a license.

    Unwilling to have the controversy overshadow the "Mahjong" exhibit of Chinese art, curator Bernhard Fibicher pulled the piece. The museum has planned a symposium for August 22, including artists and ethics experts, to decide if the piece should be re-exhibited.

    Yu, who named the piece "Ruan," which is a combination of Chinese letters derived from the names of a variety of animals, added the eyes of a rabbit to the fetal head.
    I need a foot massage

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    Opposition to Fetal Head Grafted onto Bird Body “Art” Display a Matter of “Taste,” Claims Legal Expert

    BERN, Switzerland, September 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A panel of experts has concluded that there is no reason to exclude a controversial piece of “art” – depicting the head of an unborn baby grafted onto the body of a bird – from a collection of Chinese works on display in a Swiss museum, with one legal expert claiming opposition to the piece is a matter of “taste.”

    The piece was removed from the Mahjong art exhibit at the Bern Fine Art Museum after a visitor filed a complaint last month with Bern's District Attorney. “I want to know where this baby comes from and if it was killed for this work,” said Adrien de Riedmatten.

    A panel of experts comprised of philosophers, legal experts, theologians, and art historians decided August 22 that there were no ethical or legal grounds for preventing the piece from being displayed.
    I need a foot massage

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    • #3
      DL!

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      • #4
        DL!!



        :vomit:
        You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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        • #5
          stop giving me the little dancing dudes
          I need a foot massage

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          • #6
            what do the "just a bunch of cells" crowds think of this?
            I need a foot massage

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            • #7
              DL!



              Well, when you get down to it, we are all just a bunch of cells. It just so happens we're also endowed with a modicum of "consciousness", which may be considered a "soul" by some.

              Intelligence is still a long way off, though.

              B♭3

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              • #8
                Sorry someone trumped this with the Chinese using prisoners in cosmetics.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
                  what do the "just a bunch of cells" crowds think of this?
                  I think if the baby was dead anyway, then go wild.
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                  • #10
                    We got a picture?!
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                    • #11
                      That is disgusting. Why the hell was it allowed in the museum in the first place?

                      Or is that what passes as "art"

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                      • #12
                        You n00b, Verto! That's be the coolest thing ever in an art museum
                        “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                        - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                        • #13
                          Stick it in Trafalgar Square
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                          • #14


                            he put rabbit eyes into the face
                            I need a foot massage

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                            • #15
                              I would have used monkey eyes myself.
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