Now the Yale student, Aliza Shvarts, says the university is lying.

“She is an artist and has the right to express herself through performance art,” Klasky (ed—the Yale spokesperson) said. “Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns.”

But Shvarts reiterated Thursday that she repeatedly use a needleless syringe to insert semen into herself. At the end of her menstrual cycle, she took abortifacient herbs to induce bleeding, she said. She said she does not know whether or not she was ever pregnant.

“No one can say with 100-percent certainty that anything in the piece did or did not happen,” Shvarts said, “because the nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties.”

Here’s the latest.

It’s not every day when the leaders of organizations on both sides of the abortion issue join forces to condemn something.

I’m not sure I’ll be able to keep up with this story. It’s more and more bewildering.