JAISHREE AJMERA

Abortion  is a medical or surgical procedure to deliberately end a pregnancy. In  Roe v. Wade  (1973), the US Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion before the viability of a fetus. A woman may exercise that right at her own discretion through the end of the first trimester, generally around the twelfth week of pregnancy. The ruling allows states to regulate but not wholly restrict a woman's access during the second trimester. During the third trimester, after viability, the condition can restrict all abortions unless the mother's health or life is in danger. However, in May 2022, a court draft opinion was leaked indicating that the solidly conservative court majority was planning to overturn the decades-old decision, which would allow states to create their own laws on abortion. The issue of abortion remains highly controversial, however, and several states have introduced restrictions that undermine that ruling. Abortion restri...

Noise pollution: how to reduce the impact of an invisible threat? Atmospheric pollution is not the only type of contamination that is harming living beings on the planet. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is one of the most dangerous environmental threats to health. And according to the European Environment Agency (EEA), noise is responsible for 16,600 premature deaths and more than 72,000 hospitalisations annually in Europe alone. According to the WHO, noise is harmful when it exceeds 75 decibels (dB) and feels painful at levels above 120 dB. Drivers honking the horn, groups of workers drilling the road surface, aircraft flying over us in the sky... Noise, noise and more noise.  Cities have become the epicentre of a type of pollution, acoustics,  which, although its invisibility and the fact that the coronavirus crisis reduced it until almost yearn it, is severely damaging to human beings. So much so that the European Environment Agency estimates that ...

  The dangers of climate change are well established but action has been mired in economic and political arguments, given its effects are diverse and global, there is no longer time to wait for action. Sir David King, the former U.K. chief scientific adviser, and current leader of Independent Sage have launched an international advisory group of leading climate experts with a program to mitigate the consequences of climate change through emissions reduction, greenhouse gas removal, and climate repair. The Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) seeks to provide independent expert advice and guidance to global leaders as they seek further commitments and actions to combat the climate crisis. Open to politicians, advisors and most importantly the public, the Group wants to change the way we look at the climate crisis. Speaking before the official launch on 23rd June King said, “We’re looking at a  series of disastrous events over the next few decades. Our objective is to get emissi...

  The Paradox of the Indian Healthcare Sector For a rustic that prides itself on being a welfare kingdom that appears after its many terrible and underprivileged residents, India spends highly much less on healthcare as a per cent of GDP or Gross Domestic Product than different growing and advanced international locations. Indeed, India is among most of the international locations with the lowest spending consistent with individuals via way of means of the authorities on healthcare and searching after the unwell and needy. Thus, it isn't sudden that India has one of the maximum quotes of dangerous and unwell human beings, which make contributions immediately to the lack of efficient capacities of such human beings. Economists regularly refer to what's called human capital or the tangible and intangible profits from efficient residents in which such residents who're nicely knowledgeable and wholesome regularly cause better increase quotes for the international lo...