Michigan voters wrote reproductive rights into the state constitution in 2022. Planned Parenthood of Michigan had 14 health centers then. Today it has seven. Three closed on a single day at the end of July — Lansing, Livonia and Warren. None of them performed procedural abortions. The clinic in Ferndale is still open only because Oakland County commissioners voted on Aug. 13 to spend up to $1.5 million keeping it there through 2028.

Ferndale sits in state Sen. Mallory McMorrow's district. She spent the past year running for the U.S. Senate, then suspended her campaign a month before the primary. She joins host Robyn Vincent on what the state did and didn't do to stop the closures — and why she walked away from the race.