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Pro-life sculpture of pop star causes controversy

When it comes to celebrities, anything is fair game, especially when artist Daniel Edwards puts it all on display at New York’s Capla Kesting Art Gallery. Cast in resin, “Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston” features a life-size nude Britney Spears, pregnant and on all fours on a bear-skin rug, birthing her son, whose head crowns at the other end. Extra security was hired by the gallery to monitor the sculpture during its two week exhibition. The 24-year-old pop singer gave birth to her son, Sean Preston, on September 14, 2005.

Gallery co-owner David Kesting has received thousands of emails from pro-choice and anti-abortionists alike. In response to those associated with the pro-life movement who find the work degrading, Edwards told the Associated Press, “This is a new take on pro-life. Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images of abortion. This is the image of birth.”

The artist, who has never met or spoken with Spears, worked from photographs to produce her likeness. “I admire her. This is an idealized figure,” he said. “Everyone is coming at me with anger and venom, but I depicted her as she has depicted herself—seductively. Suddenly, she’s a mom.”