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“The Human Life Protection Act "defines all unborn children as persons". It bans abortions AT ANY STAGE OF A PREGNANCY. The law provides for exceptions in cases where a fetus has a lethal anomaly (a medical condition that would cause the fetus to be stillborn or to die shortly following birth), or in cases where a pregnancy would "present serious health risk" to the woman. The law also allows abortions to be performed "upon confirmation from a psychiatrist" that a pregnant woman diagnosed with a "serious mental illness" might otherwise take an action that would lead to her own death or to the death of the fetus. The law does not ban procedures to end ectopic pregnancies or procedures in which a dead fetus is removed from the uterus. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE AN EXCEPTION IN CASES OF RAPE OR INCEST.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Life_Protection_Act
Here is another example, from Texas: “Senate Bill 8, ushered through the Republican-dominated Texas legislature and signed into law by the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, in May, bars abortion once embryonic cardiac activity is detected, which is around six weeks, and offers NO EXCEPTIONS FOR RAPE OR INCEST. Texas is the first state to ban abortion this early in pregnancy since Roe v Wade, and last-minute efforts to halt it through an appeal to the US supreme court by Tuesday did not succeed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/01/texas-aborti...
Further reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/05/supreme...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/abortion-trigger-laws....
> Alright, I'm going to take a year off the twitters and see what else I can do with the time. Follow @idlewords for blog post notifications, http://blog.pinboard.in for actual Pinboard stuff. Great Slate 2022: under no circumstances give any politicians money. See you all in 2023!
> For the proposed 2021-22 budget, the San Francisco Police Department’s allocation will decrease by $6 million, from about $668 million to $661 million. Those cuts can nearly all be attributed to decreased demand for police at the airport. However, in the following fiscal year, the city projects the police budget will increase once again to $689 million. That’s close to the police budget’s all-time high of $692 million in FY 2019-20. By way of comparison, in FY 2010-11, the police budget weighed in at $445 million.
https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...
Fulltext here: https://doi.apa.org/fulltext/2022-16081-001.pdf
Citationsy is a reference management and research app. We have raised a small seed round and are looking to expand our team.
We are currently a fully remote team of two and are looking for ambitious frontend and backend developers (or full-stack developers) to join us.
Our current stack is PHP for the backend and frontend, with some basic JS for interactivity. We also have a Cordova based iOS and Android app, as well as an Electron based macOS app. These use our API (which is written in PHP). What we’d like to do is write a new web frontend in React/Next.js that uses the same API, and eventually use that new frontend for the mobile apps too.
Please send your CV/Résumé or any questions you may have to cenk@citationsy.com
This role us fully remote and we have no restrictions on locations or timezones. Optimally we’d all meet up once a year somewhere.