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Whether you\u2019re 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<\/a> 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<\/a>. 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\u2019s head emerging at the other end.<\/p>\n

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\u2019t like its message, but pro-lifers also complain it demeans their cause. Every individual is precious, of course, but it’s true that we\u2019ll be stunned if an abortion opponent ever asks, \u201cWhat if Sean Preston Federline\u2019s mom had an abortion?\u201d<\/p>\n

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