Today Mexico’s Supreme Court is deliberating on whether or not
to overturn the 2007 law that legalized abortion in Mexico City.
Primarily meant to help the city’s poorest women, who had received one too many botched abortions at illegal clinics, the law has been met with unrelenting resistance in the Catholic country. Eighty-five percent of gynecologists have declared themselves conscientious objectors, and hospital staff members have been reported as hostile and demeaning, creating unnecessary impediments for women.
Slipped on a pile of goo and wondering if you have a case. If you have the Internet, starting next month you can log on to
WhoCanISue and see for yourself. Started by a Florida lawyer, the website will
help prospective litigants figure out whether they have a case as well as find a lawyer in one fell click.
With Italy's
new laws against sleeping, eating, drinking, and singing in public all aimed at making the place more pleasant (or less, if you fancy a chianti and snooze al fresco) you'd think it'd be in the top two European countries with the best quality of life. Not so amigos, as
Bush would say.
Let's start at the bottom: The poor UK has the lowest quality of life in Europe — even though Brits earn the most —
according to research released yesterday.
That money can't buy them happiness — they pay a king's ransom for essential goods: 18 percent above the average for diesel, 49 percent more for gas, and 5 percent more for electricity.
US Army deserter, Robin Long, fled to Canada in 2005 to avoid serving in Iraq. Yesterday, Long
was deported back to the US, the first time a resister to the US war effort in Iraq has been sent home by Canadian authorities. Long claims that he fled to avoid participation in an "illegal war of aggression in Iraq."
The judge who heard his case this week, ruled that Long couldn't provide clear evidence he would suffer irreparable harm if he was sent back to the United States.
Are the British aiming to squash free speech. Robert Murat, an
official suspect in the
Madeleine McCann case, has settled his libel case against several British newspapers for overconnecting him to her disappearance
with headlines like "Sex Secret of Madeleine Suspect: Briton ‘Shared’ the Wife of Pool Cleaner at Villa." His pay out is thought to be close to $1 million. Murat lived close to location where Madeleine disappeared and was named the first formal suspect though he's denied any involvement in her disappearance last May.
