Inside the fight for a new abortion clinic in one California city

FILE PHOTO: View of a Planned Parenthood Health Center in Sacramento, California
FILE PHOTO: A view of a Planned Parenthood Health Center in Sacramento, as California abortion providers are preparing for an influx of patients from other states, if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe vs. Wade case, in California, U.S. February 2, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

By Sharon Bernstein

As soon as he learned abortion provider Planned Parenthood wanted to open a new clinic in the central California city of Visalia, resident Rod Greenfield wrote to all five city council members and urged them to deny the permit.