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<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\nFortunately, the reaction against the bill has been fierce,<\/a> and the bill’s passage has been delayed, at least for now.<\/p>\n
Virginia’s conservatives have been emboldened by similar laws in Texas and Idaho also requiring trans-vaginal ultrasound before one can proceed with an abortion. As this article suggests,<\/a> this type of legislation, including proposed laws granting ‘personhood’ at the moment of conception, are making their way across conservative-dominated state legislatures.<\/p>\n
These lawmakers directly proclaim that branding a woman with a crimson capital “A” is not enough public shaming when that woman seeks to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. One Virginia legislator went on to say that because a woman seeking an abortion has already been “trans-vaginally penetrated” in order for her to become pregnant, further transgression by a vibrator-shaped medical contraption should be no big deal.<\/p>\n
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This proposed law also makes her doctor complicit in an unnecessary medical procedure in order to remind a woman seeking an abortion of her errant ways. Because Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land, the new law would, for both doctor and patient, be unconstitutional and illegal. The pre-abortion procedure could be constituted as medical rape,\u00a0should the law be approved and\u00a0if we got that far into contesting it.\u00a0It means that the vaginas of the ‘penetrated’ — women who engage in sex before marriage, married women and mothers — have less value than virgin vaginas. That penetration may not only include a penis, but a tampon.\u00a0What this also means is war. Cases going up against these laws going all the way up to the Supreme Court? Bet on it.<\/p>\n
As we have been discussing since Neptune ingressed Pisces earlier this month, we have witnessed the repressive and misogynistic agenda of the right wing, as well as other conservative maneuvering in light of President Obama’s announcement that contraception be provided by employers through their health insurance — which is, by the way, already in practice and has been so for years — and now, according to the President, without a co-pay. In response and right on cue for the general election campaign of 2012, the American Taliban — the pro-life Christian right led by Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and Catholic bishops — have issued their version of a fatwah on women’s reproductive rights.<\/p>\n
We keep talking here about Neptune moving into Pisces along with Chiron and Pallas as a very big deal. It is. As Zane Stein said in Eric’s email this morning:<\/p>\n
Many of you who read this may remember the last time Chiron was in Pisces (although as the old joke goes, “If you can remember the Sixties you weren’t there”). It passed through Pisces to teach us many things, but its method was to help us heal our wounds by first polarizing society so we could see just how far from whole we really were. Even if you don’t remember the Sixties you probably have read of all the ways we were pulled into two different directions. So add this to the mix, and you can easily see the polarization, which has already begun, intensifying as a result of the lunation.<\/p>\n
Then there is Pallas. She doesn’t start fights, but if she feels a battle has begun she fights to defend her people. She also is quite adept at mapping out plans, perceiving patterns. Her part in this lunation, I fear, is to stir people to clearly draw out the battle lines.<\/p>\n
The potential energy of this lunation is unbelievable. Pallas\/Chiron can enable us to fight against anything that is blocking us from trying to heal our wounds, and linked with Neptune enable us to see a much, much larger picture than we even dreamt possible. But there will be so many, many temptations to follow other pathways…false paths that lead nowhere, false gurus that are full of lies, drugs that promise enlightenment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s it. I am through. Perhaps, as Zane puts it, I need to be mindful of the bigger picture. But bigger, more powerful women and men are going to have to go up against these witch burners in legislative clothing. They can draw the battle line. As for me, I AM the battle line, and I am done. The pro-choice movement has been far too kind, polite and apologetic with these reproductive Torquemadas<\/em><\/a> and their quest for dominion over my vagina — my self — as well as the selves of American women. Our lives and our<\/em> personhoods are at stake.<\/p>\n
I don’t have it in me to be nice. Not after how far we’ve come. I say, let’s throw it back in their faces: put the call out to developers in blue states to design and build ‘abortion malls’ which not only will provide the service free of charge and with no hassle, but also offer contraception drugstores, post-procedure massage parlors and counseling, mani-pedis, a same-sex marriage chapel, a medical pot dispensary, and free office space for anti-death penalty advocacy organizations. In other words, throw their fucking medieval\u00a0philosophies along with their medical trans-vaginal torture devices out the window and and shove their women-hating culture war up where the sun don’t shine.<\/p>\n
In the Sixties, we used to say to the oppressive establishment “Up Yours!” I’d like to add a new phrase to that genre as a special message to the Virginia legislature, one coined by my precious Filipino mama when she was outraged. It’s\u00a0ukininam<\/em>. It means, up your MAMA’s pussy. Until this war of the states versus our beautiful sexy vaginas is over, until they get over their need to try to control women’s self-determination of what our sexual lives should be, and until Neptune dissolves their bullshit into the porcine methane gas that it is, be ready for our cannons of awareness<\/a> to start firing.<\/p>\n
It’s on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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