This past January, Yale University’s Reproductive Rights Action League (RALY) and Yale Medical Students for Choice commemorated the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision by demonstrating abortion procedures on papayas, displaying surgical tools and discussing the “emotional fallout” some patients experience.

Rasha Khoury, MED ‘08 and member of Medical Students for Choice, brought internet attention to herself and the project by saying, “It’s not as scary as it seems. It’s just blood and mucus,” referring to the fetal remains in a manual vacuum aspiration device. “You’ll be able to see arms and stuff, but still just miniscule.”

The Yale Daily News, which had covered the event, pulled its report after it attracted attention on the Catholic Answers Forums and the blog GODSBODY.

Less than three months later, Yale has attracted controversy again, just yesterday, this time because an art student, Aliza Shvarts, claims to have impregnated herself artificially several times over the last…