Dear Friend and Reader,
WE ARE ABOUT to experience a total eclipse of the Moon in the sign Scorpio, symbols boldly pointing to matters of women’s reproduction, and concerns of the public about such issues.
Soon after the corresponding solar eclipse in Taurus on April 30, a draft decision was leaked from the Supreme Court for the first time in American history, pertaining to the case Dobbs v. Jacobson’s Women’s Health Organization.
The proposed ruling would render it legal for states to entirely ban abortion, overturning the famous Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood cases.
This is also happening during the Chiron return of the Roe decision, and of the United States — and during the Pluto return of the United States. We live in revolutionary times. But the question is, whose revolution, and against what.
The supposed religious rights of a fictional entity (a corporation) were held by the court to be more important than the private medical choices and religious or ethical principles of individual women.
We’ve Been Witnessing This for Years
As the kind of man who hangs out with midwives, civil rights attorneys and internationally acclaimed feminists, I have known which way the wind was blowing for a long time. A journalism colleague of mine was involved with training women for safe, home-based, early-term abortion in 1990, preparing for this moment 31 years ago. (She is now a midwife.)
We have all watched as the Supreme Court has slowly but steadily eroded sexual freedoms and privileges, including the infamous Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, a 2014 decision that allows medical discrimination in the name of religious freedom.
Under this decision, family-held businesses can prevent women employees from obtaining birth control through their employee health insurance benefits, if the business determines that such violates its own “religious freedom.” The supposed religious rights of a fictional entity (a corporation) were held by the court to be more important than the private medical choices and religious or ethical principles of individual women.
The same people who are attempting to remove the right to choose whether to carry a pregnancy to term are also interfering with their right to prevent pregnancies. And so far as I have seen, the feminist movement is not responding; a few individuals have a clue. But there is no sense of collective response.