Statewide Iowa — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, says the U.S. Supreme Court made a big mistake in overturning Roe v Wade. Republican Brenna Bird says if she’s elected attorney general, she’ll be on the frontlines of defending new restrictions on abortion.
Bird says Miller chose not to have his office defend the state when Planned Parenthood sued to block the six week abortion ban Republican lawmakers adopted in 2018.
Miller says he did the ethnical thing by having private attorneys rather than the attorney general’s office defend abortion restrictions the Republican legislature and governor had adopted.
Miller says he’s opposed to “extreme” abortion policies.
Miller and Bird made their comments during taping of “Iowa Press” which aired Friday night on Iowa PBS.
