{"id":52877,"date":"2012-02-08T13:40:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=52877"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:40:48","slug":"venus-on-the-aries-point-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/venus-on-the-aries-point-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus on the Aries Point in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the eve of Venus entering Aries (which occurred overnight at 1:01 am EST), Rick Santorum — perhaps the most rabidly anti-sex candidate campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination — won the the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses<\/a>, as well as a nonbinding primary in Missouri. You can read earlier Planet Waves coverage of his views<\/a> and natal chart<\/a> to get a sense just how twisted up his beliefs on sex really are.<\/p>\n

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Rick Santorum readies his rights-popping finger. Ok, not really -- he\u2019s just making a point after his campaign wins last night. Image: video still.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Part of what has become a hot campaign topic for Santorum and the other Republicans this week is a new Obama administration rule requiring health insurance plans, including those provided by Catholic-affiliated hospitals and universities, to offer free birth control methods. In fact, Republican campaigning became heavy against this health care provision this week, as though warming us up for Venus’ entrance into the revolutionary Uranus-Pluto square that has been heating up social movements for months (Venus is now conjunct Uranus). <\/p>\n

As if we actually need more things to get riled up about regarding women’s health (although, maybe we do — since this stuff keeps happening, maybe it means we need to step up our efforts for the good of all). Not only do Republican politicians want to limit what women can do after<\/em> they get pregnant, now they’re trying to limit women’s ability to prevent<\/em> pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Talk about trying to hog-tie women. Luckily, not all Catholic parishioners take the stance on birth control that the bishops of their churches take. In fact, according to Jon O\u2019Brien, President of Catholics for Choice, a non-profit organization that represents the voice of Catholics on reproductive and sexual health, as many as 98% of Catholics in the U.S. use some form of birth control. If these same Catholics vote their reality rather than their church’s dogma, they could perhaps have some weight with their elected officials.<\/p>\n

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Democracy Now!<\/a> today interviews O’Brien, along with Michael Brendan Dougherty, politics editor at Business Insider<\/em> and contributing editor at the American Conservative<\/em>, and Loretta Ross, the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Reproductive Justice Collective and long-time human rights activist. Unfortunately at the time of this posting, the rush transcript for this segment was not available to be able to quote. But you can watch the interviews here<\/a>. Pay close attention to when Dougherty compares compelling Catholic bishops and administrators to offer birth control coverage in health insurance plans to requiring Jewish Rabbis to buy pork for people for health reasons. <\/p>\n

Truly outrageous — but then, so is the field of Republican presidential candidates. And just look at how many people are voting for them. Santorum’s surge is unnerving in the extreme. We’ll see what kind of strong, revolutionary, humane surprises women come up with now that Venus is working with Uranus on the Aries Point. If the Republicans and ultra-conservative Christian factions manage to reach any further into the personal space of our bedrooms, we’ll be able to taste what kind of soap they use to wash their hands of all this ‘dirty’, ‘immoral’ sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the eve of Venus entering Aries (which occurred overnight at 1:01 am EST), Rick Santorum — perhaps the most rabidly anti-sex candidate campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination — won the the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses, as well as a nonbinding primary in Missouri. You can read earlier Planet Waves coverage of his views … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[762],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}