Election 2024: Abortion divides a city, and a nation

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In the U.S., reproductive rights are high on the agenda during this 2024 presidential election cycle. This comes two years after the Supreme Court overturned a 50-year precedent protecting a woman’s right to an abortion. When the Mississippi clinic at the center of the 2022 legal case was forced to close, the owner opened new facilities where abortion was still legal – including the state of Virginia. Poppie Mphuthing reports.