Remember, remember, the 5th of November, when United States citizens go to the polls, and the world holds its breath.

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’s stands against former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump. Despite all the geopolitical, economic and environmental instability over this past year, the hot-button issue in the 2024 Presidential election remains sexual and reproductive health (SRH) - specifically abortion rights.

In 2022, the Dobbs Amendment ruling passed by the US Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade, a law which had made access to abortion a federal requirement for nearly 50 years. As a result, abortion was re-criminalised across the United States, with an estimated 13 million women and pregnant people losing access to pregnancy terminations, including those for medical necessity. Early research has shown that the overturning........

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