U.S. District Judge William Conley has granted a temporary restraining order preventing Wisconsin from enforcing a new and restrictive abortion law, CNN reported. Signed by the state's governor Scott Walker on Friday, bans doctors from performing abortion if they do no not have admitting privileges to hospitals within 30 minutes of their practice.
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, the three women who Cleveland police said were held captive in a home for almost a decade have issued a YouTube video in which they thanked the public for the encouragement and financial support that are allowing them to restart their lives.
Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized at least 148 female inmates between 2006 and 2010 with required state approval. There are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s.
A juveniles' court in New Dehli is ready hand down the first verdict next week concerning the gang-rape of a physiotherapy student, which sparked mass protests throughout the capital in recent months, the BBC reported. The court has been hearing the case of one of six suspects, who was 17 at the time of the crime, and was soon arrested after the brutal assault of the woman on a moving bus on December 16.
