planned parenthood

The hearing comes just days after a man was shot in the parking lot outside of a Planned Parenthood in Columbia, according to local news organization FitsNews.

A Planned Parenthood volunteer told abortion rights newsletter Abortion, Every Day that Baumgartner is regularly outside the Planned Parenthood and has a history of “aggression with patients.”

“I’m stunned about the allegation and find it hard to believe,” said Alison Gaulden, who supervised Williamson when she worked as an associate vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte from 2002 to 2004.

A Planned Parenthood program in Orange and San Bernardino counties announced its imminent closure earlier this month due to being federally defunded.

This came alongside the governor’s decision to allocate $140 million in state funding to Planned Parenthood.