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Will abortion be a key issue in the upcoming US presidential election?

Newshour travels to Missouri, the first state to impose an almost total ban on abortion

Ahead of the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and with less than two months left until polling day, James Menendez and team travel to Missouri, the first state to impose a nearly total ban on abortion, to see if this issue moves voters from one aisle to the other.

Also in the programme: With the Midwest crucial in this year’s presidential election, we ask β€œwhat does it mean to be a Midwestener?” ; and we’ll hear from the Afghan hospital struggling to save its starving babies .

(Picture: Newshour’s presenter James Menendez with American businessman Billy Busch. Credit: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ).

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