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Maybe He Should Have Sculpted Beethoven’s Mom

Wednesday March 29, 2006

Whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life, you have to wonder if holding those horrible posters and lingering outside clinics is the best way to protest abortion. Daniel Edwards, a sculptor based in Connecticut, has come up with a better way. Edwards has created an homage to the creative force in the shape of Britney Spears giving birth to her now 6-month-old son. Edwards found notoriety last year when he produced a sculpture of Ted Williams's surgically removed and cryogenically frozen head. The life-size resin figure, titled "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" depicts a pregnant, nude Britney crouched over a bear skin rug, with a look of severe concentration on her face and Sean Preston’s head emerging at the other end.

Britney fans are irate, sending the Brooklyn, N.Y., gallery where the statue goes on display next month more than 3,000 emails in less than a week. Activists on both sides of the debate are riled too: pro-choicers, of course, because they don’t like its message, but pro-lifers also complain it demeans their cause. Every individual is precious, of course, but it's true that we’ll be stunned if an abortion opponent ever asks, “What if Sean Preston Federline’s mom had an abortion?”
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Cusidh
March 30, 2006 8:56 PM

Okay, I have to say, the only thing connecting this statue at *all* to 'Pro-Life' is the *title.*


And apparently someone's spin that pro-choice people are anti-motherhood (Some might jibe, 'even for Britney.' :) )>

Jules
March 30, 2006 8:58 PM

The sculpture - not a particularly good one at that - doesn't strike me as pro-life, just unrealistic. I've had four children - all vaginal deliveries, the last one being 11+ lbs. No mother I've ever known who's given birth vaginally, even with painkillers, childbirth classes, and supportive partners has *ever* claimed to experience tranquility (like the statue's facial expression depicts) during that process!

And as several posters pointed out, Ms. Spears had a C-section, so she didn't exactly go through the birth process as depicted in the sculpture. I'm in agreement with Rita Clarke regarding it being more for publicity, and could've been better represented by another example.>

Yahya Bergum
March 30, 2006 10:04 PM

Frankly I don't give a rip about what somebody chooses to expose to their own community. It's not my affair.

However I suspect that particular species of bear is endangered. Does her have tribe have an accord, with nations whom it concerns, to hunt such a bear? Surely you realize she's making a fashion statement.>

rogar131
March 30, 2006 10:48 PM

I wonder if the statue lip-synchs in concert, too?>

Rita Clarke
April 4, 2006 6:27 PM

Besides, who in their right mind would choose Britney Spears as a model for ANY movement?>

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