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Female voter registration for Wisconsin midterms surges after abortion ban

Sam White, a 23-year-old college student, had to travel to Minnesota to have an abortion after the abortion clinics in her own state Wisconsin were shut down. © FRANCE 24 screengrab

Ahead of the November 8 midterms, FRANCE 24 takes you on a tour down the Mississippi River with a series of reports by Fanny Allard. The second of five episodes brings us to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where all abortion clinics in the state have closed since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling guaranteeing American women access to abortion. Since then, new female voter registration has surged in Wisconsin, and activists are hoping the right to abortion will be a key issue in the elections.

On the same day 23-year-old college student Sam White was supposed to get an abortion, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.

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